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Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan

Highway 61 Revisited

Release Date: 6/1/2004

Recording Date: 8/1965

Tracks: 9

Length: 00:51:30 Hrs

Label: Legacy

Type: CD

Genre/Styles:
Rock & Roll, Blues-Rock, Folk, Organ, Singer/Songwriter, Political Folk, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Guitar (Acoustic), Piano, Guitar (Electric), Vocals, United States of America, Album Rock

What the Critics Say

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, Rovi

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