Blonde on Blonde (1966)

1. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
2. Pledging My Time
3. Visions of Johanna
4. One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
5. I Want You
6. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
7. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
8. Just Like a Woman
9. Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine
10. Temporary Like Achilles
11. Absolutely Sweet Marie
12. 4th Time Around
13. Obviously 5 Believers
14. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands

Notes and Reviews

The musicians: Bob Dylan - vocals, guitar, harmonica Jerry Kennedy - guitar (1-3, 5-14) Charlie McCoy - guitar (1-3, 5-8, 10-12, 14), bass (9) harmonica (12-13), trumpet (9) Wayne Moss - guitar (1-3, 5-14) Robbie Robertson - guitar (1-2, 4-5, 8-11, 13) Joe South - guitar (1-2, 5--14), bass (3) Paul Griffin - piano (4) Hargus "Pig" Robinson - piano (1-3, 5-14) Al Kooper - organ (2-4, 6-8, 11-12, 14) Rick Danko - bass (4) Henry Strzelecki - bass (1-2, 5-8, 10-14) Kenneth Buttrey - drums (1-3, 5-14) (?) Sandy Konikoff - drums (4) Bill Aikans - trombone (1)



Reviews:

From the The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

"Blonde on Blonde [1966] The seventh album and Dylan’s first double-album. To have followed up
one masterpiece with another was Dylan’s historymaking achievement here. It aims, perhaps, at a
more limited canvas than Highway 61 Revisited but evokes a much richer, more multi-layered, synapsejumping
consciousness. Where Highway 61 Revisited has Dylan exposing and confronting like a
laser-beam in surgery, descending from outside the sickness, Blonde on Blonde offers a persona
awash inside the chaos and speaking to others who are acceptedly in the same boat and on the
same ocean. We’re tossed from song to song, and they all move into each other. The feel and the
music are on a grand scale, truly oceanic, and the language and delivery is a unique mixture of the
visionary and the colloquial, the warm and the alert. Dylan dances like his own ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’
through these songs, even though tossed and blown by disorientating, desperate forces. It seems
against the spirit of the double-album’s cumulative effect to single out particular songs, but they
include ‘Visions of Johanna’, ‘Pledging My Time’, ‘Memphis Blues Again’ and ‘Sad-Eyed Lady of the
Lowlands’."

Rolling Stone review ...

Best Song: "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". The most beautiful love song ever written by man, woman or vegetable.
"Visions of Johanna" perhaps the best Dylan song ever, period. -- unattributed.

I'm partial to "Memphis Blues Again". -- Folkrockman

But Johanna's not here.. and that's what it's all about...So "Visions of Johanna"
According to Alias

Favorite Lyric: Sometimes a single line perfectly captures the mood ..."your debutante knows just what you need...but i know what you want..."

"The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face"
According to Alias