Highway 61 Revisited (1965) Album Review

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Rolling Stone

Bruce Springsteen has described the beginning of "Like a Rolling Stone," the opening song on Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, as the "snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind." The response of folk singer Phil Ochs to
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MP3

Even by todays standards, this classic hold up. But, it's really impossible to measure this work by todays standards because, they didn't even exist when this was released. Dylan pushed the envelope like no one else had! It was all so totally new. No one
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artistdirect.com

Taking the first, electric side of Bringing It All Back Home to its logical conclusion, Bob Dylan hired a full rock & roll band, featuring guitarist Michael Bloomfield, for Highway 61 Revisited. Opening with the epic "Like a Rolling Stone," Highway 61
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Amazon.com

Dylan was virtually gushing great songs when this masterpiece arrived in the summer of 1965. From the epochal opening of "Like a Rolling Stone" through the absurdly apocalyptic closer, "Desolation Row," his command of surrealistic language was daring and
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Wiki Pedia

It is Dylan's first album to be recorded entirely with a full rock band, after he experimented with the approach on half of Bringing It All Back Home. It is commonly tagged as documenting the "angry young man" period in Dylan's career, in-between the
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Epinions

I dread writing reviews of truly great albums because I really don't know what to say. With most albums I can pick out a flaw or three and hold it under the microscope ("Good album, but..." or "Average record, because..."). But with a perfect album, I
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starling.rinet

This is where the vision becomes friggin' complete. No more of these old-fashioned, compromising acoustic ditties with Pete Seger's bad breath on their back. Oh, so they were marvelous, perfect in scope and realisation, but by mid-'65, Dylan has finally
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albumvote.com

Sure, Highway 61 Revisited is considered a milestone in modern music nowadays, but when it was released in 1965, all was not well for Bob Dylan. He was in full-swing with the whole electric guitar thing, which wasn't going over very well with much of his
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DooYoo

Highway 61 Revisited� was Bob Dylan�s sixth album, and the second on which he used a band, or more specifically, a rhythm section, plus musicians like Al Kooper (organ) and Mike Bloomfield (guitar). Highway 61 itself stretches north to south from
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All Music Guide

Taking the first, electric side ofBringing It All Back Hometo its logical conclusion, Bob Dylan hired a full rock & roll band, featuring guitaristMichael Bloomfield, forHighway 61 Revisited. Opening with the epic "Like a Rolling Stone,"Highway
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PopMatters

Anarchy in the U.S.: Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited The year was 1965. America's involvement in Vietnam is escalating and American troops are sent to the Dominican Republic in an attempt quell a rebellion on the island. The Johnson Administration
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Adrian Denning.co.uk

After producing the masterful 'Like A Rolling Stone' Bob and Tom Wilson reputedly had a falling out resulting in the future Frank Zappa and Velvet Underground producer being ousted and replaced by Bob Johnston. Not that you'd notice a huge difference
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John Mcferrin Music Reviews

In some ways, this can be considered Bringing It All Back Home Vol. 2 , but this is one of those cases where the sequel is better than the (still great) original (like with Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back ). The basic premise of the album is
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Highway 61 Revisited

by Bob Dylan

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