Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

1. Like a Rolling Stone
2. Tombstone Blues
3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
4. From a Buick 6
5. Ballad of a Thin Man
6. Queen Jane Approximately
7. Highway 61 Revisited
8. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
9. Desolation Row

Wikipedia Entry

Notes and Reviews

The musicians: Bob Dylan - vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano Mike Bloomfield - guitar (1-7) Charlie McCoy - guitar (8-9) Paul Griffin - piano or organ (1-8) Frank Owens - piano and maracas (5-8) Al Kooper - organ (1-8) Harvey Brooks - bass (1-7) Russ Savakus - bass and contrabass (8-9) Bobby Gregg - drums (1) Bobby Gregg or Sam Lay - drums (2-8)

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From the The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

"Highway 61 Revisited [album, 1965] Dylan’s sixth album and his first fully fledged eagle-flight
into rock. Revolutionary and stunning, not just for its energy, freshness and panache but in its vision:
fusing radical electric music—electric music as the embodiment of our whole out-of-control, nervousenergy-
fuelled, chaotic civilization—with lyrics that were light-years ahead of anyone else’s, Dylan
here unites the force of blues-based rock’n’roll with the power of poetry. The whole rock culture,
the whole post-BEATLE pop-rock world, and so in an important sense the 1960s, started here. It isn’t
only ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ and the unprecedentedly long Armageddon epic ‘Desolation Row’: it’s
every song. It’s the carving out of a new emotional correspondence with a new chaos-reality. There it
all was in one bombshell of an album, for a generation who only recognized what world they were
living in when Dylan illuminated it so piercingly."

Best Song: Duh? "Like a Rolling Stone" is one of the best songs in history by any artist! -- Folkrockman


Favorite Lyric: "Ya never understood that it ain't right to let other people get your kicks for you."

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