This is not a “best from 1983” list, just 5 Great songs Bob Dylan recorded in 1983.
Blind Willie McTell (electric version)
I didn’t think I recorded it right. But I don’t know why that stuff gets out on me. I mean, it never seems to get out on other people.
~Bob Dylan (to Kurt Loder, March 1984)
Studio A
Power Station
New York City, New York
April/May 1983
Infidels recording session. Produced by Mark Knopfler and Bob Dylan.
Not released.
Seen the arrow on the doorpost
Saying, “This land is condemned
All the way from New Orleans
To Jerusalem”
I traveled through East Texas
Where many martyrs fell
And I know no one can sing the blues
Like Blind Willie McTell