“I Want You” by Bob Dylan

"I Want You" was the last thing Bob Dylan cut for Blonde on Blonde, a string of takes in the small hours of March 10, 1966, and it came out that year both as a single and on the album, his seventh. Bob Johnston produced. On its face it's a plain, hungry declaration of desire, but Dylan crowds it with such strange images and symbols that critics have been decoding it ever since.

The single's flip was a live "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues", taped at the Odeon in Liverpool that May. Dylan kept reworking the song for decades, recasting it as a torch song on his 1978 world tour and dusting it off with the Grateful Dead in 1987, and the complete March session finally surfaced in 2015 on The Cutting Edge.

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