New Pony

[1] The song was released on June 15, 1978, on Dylan's 18th studio album Street-Legal,[1] and as the b-side of the single "Baby, Stop Crying.

[10] He also agreed with Cott's suggestion that in songs like "New Pony" and "Buckets of Rain", that he had mixed in and changed different musical genres.

[12] David Yaffee notes that the backing singers include both Dylans's girlfriend at the time, Springs,[13]: 79  and his future wife, Carolyn Dennis.

[7]: 266 [14] Scobie suggested that the pony in the song appears in three different situations: "as victim, as aesthetic display and as the object of sexual desire".

[14]: 224  Howard Wilde, another scholar, finds the element of misogyny unsurprising, given that Dylan and other members of "the first generation of rock auteurs were predominantly male".

[17] Before the release of that trilogy's third component, Shot of Love in 1981, musicologist Wilfrid Mellers considered "New Pony" too sexually-charged to be a gospel song.

[1] David Murray praised the "swampland blues beat" and the solo by Cross in his Reading Evening Post review.

'"[20] The Guardian's Robin Deneslow felt that for "New Pony" and "Baby Stop Crying", the gospel-like voices were "used effectively to highlight the anguish".

[22] Nigel Williamson admired the track's "deliciously lustful carnality",[9] and Mike Daly in The Age felt that the "thinly disguised eroticism" was part of an enjoyable "gutsy blues-rock".

[23] Greil Marcus panned the album in Rolling Stone, and opined that "the only hint of decent singing comes in the first four verses of 'New Pony'".

[24] Ed Siegel in The Boston Globe dismissed "New Pony" as "laughable",[25] and The Journal-Herald's Terry Lawson called it a "nonsense blues.

[29] A review in The Independent said that Dean Fertita of the band's contribution turned the "nonsensical" version by Dylan into "a staccato blues-metal monster".