In Dylan: Mixing up the medicine (2023), Larry Sloman convincingly argues the song is a cinematic autobiographical view of Dylan’s life (p. 451-455). Handy is a guy who has travelled around the world, had all of the trappings of success but is still searching for something, not sure what. Sloman reviews 8 pages of lyric drafts.
In Dylan: Mixing up the medicine (2023), Larry Sloman convincingly argues the song is a cinematic autobiographical view of Dylan’s life (p. 451-455). Handy is a guy who has travelled around the world, had all of the trappings of success but is still searching for something, not sure what. Sloman reviews 8 pages of lyric drafts.