Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited

by Bob Dylan

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29/03/2004
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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 favour 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.

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Product Details

Artist
Bob Dylan
Recording Environment
Studio
Label / Studio
COLUMBIA
CD WOW! Sales Rank
#20402
Media Content Format
Album
Original year of release
1965
Media Format
Audio CD
Year of release
2004
Number of Discs
1
CD 30days Sales Rank
#14405
Cast & Crew
Bob Dylan (Music Performer)
Tom Wilson Bob Johnston (Producer)

Press Reviews

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

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

[A] dizzying rush of moody disquiet, surreal imagery and freakshow characters culminate in the mighty 'Desolation Row.' Q (Magazine) (p.110)

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

Tracklisting

Disc 1:

  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

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4.0

Classic

By CDavis

from Staffordshire

About Me Young Adult

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Pros

  • Can Listen Over And Over
  • Engaging
  • Great Lyrics
  • Original

Cons

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    • At Home
    • In The Car

    Comments about COLUMBIA Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited:

    Great album from bob dylan, as usual lyrics are deep and though-provoking. Difficult to determine what the hell he's on about in the sleeve notes (stoned? probably!), but a very good album at a great price. Wouold recommend to anyone wanting to investigate the work of Bob Dylan.

    Remastering is great too.

     
    5.0

    Magnificent album of Dylan.

    By nicocomini

    from Buenos Aires

    About Me Adult, Young Adult

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    Pros

    • Can Listen Over And Over
    • Engaging
    • Great Lyrics
    • Hit Songs
    • Original

    Cons

      Best Uses

      • At Home
      • Gift
      • In The Car

      Comments about COLUMBIA Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited:

      One of the best works of Dylan in the 60s. Very good edition and great value. An opportunity not to be missed!

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      Perfect!

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