General Article name: Highway 61 Revisited
Genre: Rock englischsprachig Product type: LP (Vinyl) Label: COL Number of tracks: 9 Tracklist LP - 1 1. Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone [Mono Version] 2. Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues [2010 Mono Version] 3. Bob Dylan - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry [Mono Version] 4. Bob Dylan - From a Buick 6 [Mono Version] 5. Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man [Mono Version] 6. Bob Dylan - Queen Jane Approximately [2010 Mono Version] 7. Bob Dylan - Highway '61 Revisited [2010 Mono Version] 8. Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues [2010 Mono Version] 9. Bob Dylan - Desolation Row [2010 Mono Version]   Description Description

Taking the first, electric side of Bringing It All Back Home to its logical conclusion, Bob Dylan hired a full rock & roll band, featuring guitarist Michael Bloomfield, for Highway 61 Revisited. Opening with the epic "Like a Rolling Stone," Highway 61 Revisited careens through nine songs that range from reflective folk-rock ("Desolation Row") and blues ("It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry") to flat-out garage rock ("Tombstone Blues," "From a Buick 6," "Highway 61 Revisited"). Dylan had not only changed his sound, but his persona, trading the folk troubadour for a streetwise, cynical hipster. Throughout the album, he embraces druggy, surreal imagery, which can either have a sense of menace or beauty, and the music reflects that, jumping between soothing melodies to hard, bluesy rock. And that is the most revolutionary thing about Highway 61 Revisited -- it proved that rock & roll needn't be collegiate and tame in order to be literate, poetic, and complex. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Contributors Artist: Bob Dylan Record Label: Columbia/Legacy Guest Artist: Michael Bloomfield Guest Artist: Charlie McCoy Guest Artist: Al Kooper