Highway 61 Revisited
~ Release group by Bob Dylan
Annotation
Bob Dylan also performed police car on this album.
Also part of the 10-cd box set The Bob Dylan 60's Collection, catalog number 88697 51773 2, with these discs:
Bob Dylan (disc id) | Live at The Gaslight 1962 (disc id) | The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (disc id) | The Times They Are A-Changin' (disc id) | Another Side of Bob Dylan (disc id) | Bringing It All Back Home (disc id) | Highway 61 Revisited (disc id) | Blonde on Blonde (disc id) | John Wesley Harding (disc id) | Nashville Skyline (disc id)
Part of the SACD Limited edition hybrid set with these discs:
Bringing It All Back Home | Blood on the Tracks |Blonde on Blonde (disc 1) |Blonde on Blonde (disc 2) |Another Side of Bob Dylan |Desire | Highway 61 Revisited |Infidels |John Wesley Harding |"Love and Theft" |Nashville Skyline |Oh Mercy |Planet Waves |Slow Train Coming |Street Legal |The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Release with catalog # 88697594202 is part of a box set with Blonde on Blonde. The individual disc has catalog # 512351 2 and barcode 5099751235125.
Wikipedia
Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965, by Columbia Records. Dylan continued the musical approach of his previous album Bringing It All Back Home (1965), using rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album in a further departure from his primarily acoustic folk sound, except for the closing track, the 11-minute ballad "Desolation Row". Critics have focused on the innovative way Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of contemporary America. Author Michael Gray has argued that, in an important sense, the 1960s "started" with this album.
Leading with the hit song "Like a Rolling Stone", the album features songs that Dylan has continued to perform live over his long career, including "Ballad of a Thin Man" and the title track. He named the album after the major American highway which connected his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage, including St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, and the Delta blues area of Mississippi.
Highway 61 Revisited peaked at No. 3 on the US Billboard Top LPs chart and No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart. Positively received on release, the album has since been described as one of Dylan's best works and among the greatest albums of all time, ranking No. 4 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list in 2003. It was voted No. 26 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000) and was featured in Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2010). "Like a Rolling Stone" was a top-10 hit in several countries, and was listed at No. 4 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list in 2021. Two other songs, "Desolation Row" and "Highway 61 Revisited", were listed at No. 187 and No. 373 respectively on the 2010 list.
Album
Relationships
part of: | Dave Marsh: Top 40 Albums of 1965 (number: 1) (order: 1) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2003 edition (number: 4) (order: 4) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2012 edition (number: 4) (order: 4) Absolute Radio's The 100 Collection (number: 9) (order: 9) The Guardian 100 Best Albums Ever (number: 11) (order: 11) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2020 edition (number: 18) (order: 18) Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 2023 edition (number: 18) (order: 18) 33⅓ (number: 35) (order: 35) Discothèque Idéale Qobuz / Qobuz Ideal Discography (order: 37) 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2005 edition) (number: 58) (order: 119) |
---|
Discogs: | https://www.discogs.com/master/3986 [info] |
---|---|
reviews: | https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/z2f9 [info] |
other databases: | https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/bob_dylan/highway_61_revisited/ [info] |
Allmusic: | https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000189730 [info] |
Wikidata: | Q217211 [info] |