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Bob Dylan
Released 2003

Highway 61 Revisited
03:25
9,309 plays

Desolation Row
11:20
7,772 plays

From A Buick 6
03:15
6,767 plays

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- 1
- Like A Rolling Stone
- 06:09
- 19,819 plays

- 2
- Tombstone Blues
- 05:55
- 4,673 plays

- 3
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
- 04:04
- 3,862 plays

- 4
- From A Buick 6
- 03:15
- 6,767 plays

- 5
- Ballad Of A Thin Man
- 05:56
- 4,425 plays

- 6
- Queen Jane Approximately
- 05:27
- 6,311 plays

- 7
- Highway 61 Revisited
- 03:25
- 9,309 plays

- 8
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- 05:27
- 3,758 plays

- 9
- Desolation Row
- 11:20
- 7,772 plays

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album review

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 Revisited careens through nine songs that range from reflective folk-rock ("Desolation Row") and blues ("It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry") to flat-out garage rock ("Tombstone Blues," "From a Buick 6," "Highway 61 Revisited"). Dylan had not only changed his sound, but his persona, trading the folk troubadour for a streetwise, cynical hipster. Throughout the album, he embraces druggy, surreal imagery, which can either have a sense of menace or beauty, and the music reflects that, jumping between soothing melodies to hard, bluesy rock. And that is the most revolutionary thing about Highway 61 Revisited -- it proved that rock & roll needn't be collegiate and tame in order to be literate, poetic, and complex. [In 2003, Columbia/Legacy reissued 15 selected titles from Dylan's catalog as hybrid SACDs, playable in both regular CD players and Super Audio CD players. Each title is packaged as a digipak, containing the full original artwork. On each of the titles, and on each of the layers, the remastered sound is spectacular, a considerable upgrade from the initial CD pressings.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide