I listened to it yesterday.
It won’t join my collection of Dylan masterpieces.
The relevance of the topic aside, very few 16 minute songs have been any good. I liked Neil Young’s “Ordinary But I heard it on a mountain road in New Mexico, in the fall, sunroof open... and it just kept going and going and didn’t get boring.
Freebird, long and awesome. Echoes by Pink Floyd live at Pompeii, very cool, but long and weird. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly worked. Grateful Dead did some long stuff, some worked, a lot didn’t IMO.
It’s hard to imagine Dylan pulling it off.
Ordinary People by Neil Young that is