Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited (2021 Reissue on 180g Clear Vinyl)

Dylan's sixth studio album Highway 61 Revisited was released on 30 August 1965. Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, 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.

In his memoir Chronicles: Volume One, Dylan described the kinship he felt with the route that supplied the title of his sixth album: 'Highway 61, the main thoroughfare of the country blues, begins about where I began. I always felt like I'd started on it, always had been on it and could go anywhere, even down in to the deep Delta country. It was the same road, full of the same contradictions, the same one-horse towns, the same spiritual ancestors... It was my place in the universe, always felt like it was in my blood.'

Track Listing

Side One

1. Like a Rolling Stone
2. Tombstone Blues
3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
4. From a Buick 6
5. Ballad of a Thin Man

Side Two

1. Queen Jane Approximately
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
4. Desolation Row

Format: Vinyl / 12” Album

Label: Sony Music CMG

Barcode: 0194398431017

Release Date: 26 Mar 2021