Highway 61 Revisited
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August 30, 1965 |
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LP, CD |
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9 |
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48m 49s |
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Highway 61 Revisited is the 6th studio album by American songwriter Bob Dylan , released in August 1965 .
Most music magazines rank the album among the ten most important rock albums to date. It contains the title Like a Rolling Stone, which was named the best song of all time by Rolling Stone in 2004 . The album itself was voted fourth by the magazine on its list of the 500 best albums of all time . It peaked at number 3 on the US charts and number 4 in the UK. The single Like a Rolling Stone topped number 2 in the US and number 4 in the UK.
The album marked the completion of Dylan's transformation from folk singer to rock star. At the turn of the year 1965/66, Dylan was at the first zenith of his career. This was followed by the double album Blonde on Blonde . Music critics and fans disagree on whether Highway 61 Revisited or Blonde on Blonde was the high point in Dylan's discography of the 1960s.
The songs on this album are often played by Bob Dylan at his concerts.
Emergence
Dylan named the album after US Highway 61 , which connects his native Duluth with the major blues metropolises of the south, such as St. Louis , Memphis and New Orleans . Highway 61 stretched to the birthplaces of important and famous blues musicians, such as Muddy Waters , Son House , Charley Patton and also Elvis Presley , who in the 1950s at Sun Records in Memphis was involved in the development of rock 'n' roll was significantly involved. All of these musicians had a huge musical influence on Dylan.
Highway 61 itself also gathered many myths and legends. In his biography Chronicles: Volume One , Dylan reports that he had a kind of “kinship” with the street. The Empress of the Blues , Bessie Smith , had a fatal accident on Highway 61 and Robert Johnson was said to have sold his soul to the devil at the intersection where Highway 61 and Highway 49 meet in order to become a better guitarist. This pact with the devil is also the reason for Johnson's untimely death at the age of only 27.
On Highway 61 Revisited, Dylan combined the musical influences that had wandered on US Highway 61 for decades - from early blues to contemporary rock 'n' roll; Dylan had already moved away from folk music and turned to rock music on his previous album Bringing It All Back Home . He fused blues, folk and rock 'n' roll to form folk rock ; a genre that was to have a major impact on the sound image of the 1960s and flower power .
The album was created in different recording blocks. Dylan had come back dissatisfied from a tour of England in May 1965 and, angry and frustrated, had written 20 pages of sarcastic verse. He eventually shortened it to a song, which eventually resulted in Like a Rolling Stone . Dylan recorded the song in multiple versions on June 15-16, under the production of Tom Wilson . Also, It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry and Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence emerged, but these recordings were not used for the album and released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 .
On July 25th, Dylan made his controversial performance at the Newport Folk Festival , where he and his band were booed when they began to play the tunes electrically amplified. They returned to the studio and, from July 29th to August 2nd, the master takes that should be heard on the finished album were created. The recordings were now directed by Bob Johnston . Only Like a Rolling Stone did not emerge from these sessions. In addition to the songs for the album Highway 61 Revisited , the two singles Positively 4th Street and Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window were also created .
Track list
- Like a Rolling Stone - 6:09
- Tombstone Blues - 5:56
- It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - 4:05
- From a Buick 6 - 3:15
- Ballad of a Thin Man - 5:56
- Queen Jane Approximately - 5:28
- Highway 61 Revisited - 3:26
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - 5:27
- Desolation Row - 11:22
literature
- Mark Polizzotti : Highway 61 Revisited . New York: Continuum, 2006 ISBN 0-8264-1775-2
Web links
- Highway 61 Revisited at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Paul Grushkin, Mike Ness: Rockin 'Down the Highway - The Cars and People did Made Rock Roll - The Unholy Marriage of Rock' n 'Roll and Internal Combustion . Motorbooks International, 2006, p. 136.
- ↑ Joe Levy (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (Original Edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011. S. 16f.
