Knocked Out Loaded  by Bob Dylan

The year after Empire Burlesque, Bob Dylan returns with Knocked Out Loaded. The experimentation with gospel, reggae, or pop, which had also existed in his previous works, continues. Knocked Out Loaded would become the twenty-fourth studio album in Dylan's career.

The weak point of the record is what shouldn't be, the songs themselves. The album consists of three covers, three collaborations of Dylan with other musicians, something he had done very few times in his career, and only two of his own compositions. Even the cover was something no one could imagine. It was a cheap edit from a story magazine that circulated in the 1930s and '40s in the United States, Spicy Adventures Stories. On the cover of Knocked Out Loaded, we see the cover from the magazine that had been released in January 1939 (!)

The song that has survived from Knocked Out Loaded is the eleven-minute-long Brownsville Girl, composed by Dylan and playwright Sam Shepard, which, however, had been written for his previous album. The album only reached No. 54 on the Billboard.