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Highway 61 runs from Duluth, Minnesota, where Bob Dylan was born, down to New Orleans, Louisiana.It was a major transit route out of the Deep South particularly for African Americans traveling north to Chicago, St Louis and Memphis, following the Mississippi River valley for most of its 1,400 miles (2,300 km).
The version of the song on Highway 61 Revisited is an acoustic/electric blues song, one of three blues songs on the album (the others being "From a Buick 6" and "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"). [2] [3] It is made up of lines taken from older blues songs combined with Dylan's own lyrics. [2]
Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the 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 ...
Highway 61 Revisited closes with a song that’s really too long for radio, the 1-minute epic “Desolation Row.” And in between those two towering achievements, Dylan assumes the mantle of rock ...
Twelve takes of "Tombstone Blues" were recorded on July 29, 1965. The last of these takes was released on Highway 61 Revisited the following month. The song received acclaim from music critics, with critics praising the lyrics, music, and delivery. The album version, and out-takes, have been included on several later compilations.
Lyrically, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" in a way continues a descriptive road theme from the album's previous song, "Highway 61 Revisited." [7] The singer finds himself at Easter in Juarez, Mexico, amidst sickness, despair, whores and saints. [8] While there, he encounters corrupt authorities, loose women, drugs and alcohol. [9]
On the other hand, Kooper gets short shrift as the actual purchaser of the police whistle heard on the “Highway 61 Revisited” album; the movie shows Dylan being inspired to pick that up from a ...
Highway 61 may refer to: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965 album by Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited" (song), the title track from the album; Highway 61, 1991 film by Bruce McDonald Highway 61, the accompanying album soundtrack to Bruce McDonald's film; Highway 61 Motorcycle Club, an outlaw motorcycle club founded in New Zealand