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Highway 61 Revisited [Remaster]

Artist: Bob Dylan

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1	Like a Rolling Stone
2	Tombstone Blues
3	It Takes a Train to Cry It Takes a Lot to Laugh
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

Performer Notes

Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano); Michael Bloomfield Charlie McCoy (guitar); Al Kooper, Paul Griffin (piano, organ); Frank Owens (piano); Harvey Goldstein, Russ Savakus (bass); Bobby Gregg (drums).
Engineers include: Peter Dauria, Roy Halee, Frank Laico.
Recorded in Columbia Studios, New York, New York in June-August 1965.
Includes liner notes by Bob Dylan.
Though 1966's BLONDE ON BLONDE is usually singled out as the most innovative Bob Dylan album, its predecessor HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED is the one that definitively marks Dylan's transformation from progressive folk singer to visionary rock poet. It's Dylan's first fully electric album, powered by the manic intensity of Mike Bloomfield's skull-and-crossbones blues-rock guitar leads and Al Kooper's rich organ fills.
While many of the songs are presented in a traditional 12-bar blues format, the lyrics find Dylan finally abandoning conventional linear narrative in favor of poetic abstraction, surreal imagery, and biting sarcasm. In the rock world, there has never been a lambasting harsher or more cathartic than the excoriation of "Ballad of a Thin Man," and no challenge more bold than that offered in the iconic "Like a Rolling Stone." When Dylan invokes the names of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot towards the end of the poetic epic "Desolation Row," he's not just name-dropping; he's merely delineating the company in which a work as rich and ground-breaking as HIGHWAY 61 belongs.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.88) - Ranked #4 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...One of those albums that, quite simply, changed everything..."

Q (7/01, p.45) - "...Dylan is in stinging form..."

NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #14 in NME's list of the "Greatest Albums Of All Time."

Producer: Bob Johnston; Tom Wilson
Format: CD (1 Disc); Stereo
Country: USA
Quantity Available: 42
UPC: 827969239926
Studio/Live: Studio
Release Date: 1 June 2004

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– Customer review on 27/11/2006

from the awesome "like a rolling stone",to the apocalyptic"desolatin row,and in between some of the greatest rock and blues songs ever recorded.this has to be the seminal bob dylan album.as the great man himself said"theres a lot of stuff on there that i would listen too!

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– Customer review on 08/10/2006

Released soon after "Bringing It All Back Home", this album wouldn't have even given those knocked down by that first electric album a chance to get back on their feet. "Like A Rolling Stone" doesn't even need to be mentioned here, such is its place in our musical consciousness. "Ballad Of A Thin Man" is a terrific example of just how far Dylan had travelled since his early days in the Village - how could he ever have conceived of such songs back then? This is unbelievable music, even today. The essential "essential" Dylan album!

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– Customer review on 05/09/2006

Yes yes yes this is a fantastic album and absolute clasic. Worth buying and worth listening to over and over again. Dylan is at the peak of his songwriting and musical powers creating this thoroughly original album. Theres not a bad track on here but the stand out tracks apart from Like a rolling stone is ballad of a thin man, it takes a lot to laugh and a train to cry and of course highway 61. But honestly none of the tracks on this album make for bad listening. I suppose if i wanted to be hypercritical i could say that desolation row is very long, but i dig it so...

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