Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johanna Copyright - 1966 Columbia Records "Visions of Johanna" is a song by Bob Dylan from the 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. Considered among Dylan's greatest works, Dylan referred to it as his favorite song on the album which captured that "thin, wild mercury sound". The identity of Johanna has been widely speculated.[who?] The most common 'theories' seem to be: 1. It refers to Joan Baez 2. It relates to "Gehenna" and "Ge-Hinnom", from a Hebrew word for Hell. 3. Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law, Johanna Gezina van Gogh (Bonger), who was largely responsible for Vincent's eventual emergence as a major artist. 4. Johanna refers to the infinite or to God. Another theory is[who?] that the song contains a lot of references to drugs, perhaps heroin, and has a general hallucinogenic mood. Some of the lyrics that suggest this more overtly include: one character "Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall", the lines "Voices echo this is what salvation...