Highway 61 Revisited
Opens with Like a Rolling Stone and closes with the eleven-minute Desolation Row.
Bob Dylan, 1965
- Released
- 30 August 1965
- Recorded
- 15-16 June and 29 July-4 August 1965
- Studio
- Columbia Studio A, New York City
- Label
- Columbia
- Producer
- Bob Johnston and Tom Wilson
The June sessions gave the album Like a Rolling Stone, produced by Tom Wilson. Al Kooper, who had not played organ before, improvised the riff, and the fourth take became the master. The July and August sessions came after Newport and were produced by Bob Johnston. Charlie McCoy added guitar to Desolation Row.
It reached number three in the US and four in the UK, and went platinum in both countries. Rolling Stone placed it fourth on its 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums and 18th on its 2020 list, calling it in 2003 one of those albums that changed everything. It entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002.
Track listing
- Like a Rolling Stone6:13
- Tombstone Blues5:56
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry4:09
- From a Buick 63:19
- Ballad of a Thin Man5:58
- Queen Jane Approximately5:31
- Highway 61 Revisited3:30
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues5:32
- Desolation Row11:21
Personnel
- Bob Dylan vocals, guitars, harmonica, piano on Ballad of a Thin Man, siren
- Mike Bloomfield electric guitar
- Al Kooper organ, piano
- Paul Griffin piano, organ
- Charlie McCoy guitar on Desolation Row
- Harvey Brooks bass
- Russ Savakus bass
- Joe Macho Jr. bass
- Bobby Gregg drums
- Sam Lay drums
More from Bob Dylan
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), The Times They Are a-Changin' (1964), Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Blonde on Blonde (1966), John Wesley Harding (1967), Blood on the Tracks (1975), The Basement Tapes (1975), Desire (1976), Time Out of Mind (1997), The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert (1998), Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020)
Sources
- Highway 61 Revisited, Wikipedia