“Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's 1966 album Blonde on Blonde holds no stranger travelogue than "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again". Bob Johnston produced it at Columbia's A Studio in Nashville, where the session ground through 20 takes in the small hours of February 17, 1966, and Dylan kept the very last one.

Nine verses, nine fresh casts of characters and predicaments, each odder than the one before, and Dylan rides the rolling groove like a man recounting his troubles from a barstool he can't get off. Critics have praised the words, the singing and the playing alike, and it later landed on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II. He kept it in his shows for decades, 748 performances between 1976 and 2010; a rowdier take from the 1976 tour turned up on Hard Rain and as a single backed with "Rita May", though that one got a much colder welcome.

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