Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Rivisited

Vinyl 180g, Lp, Album | Label: Columbia/Legacy | Year of release 2015 | Genre: Folk Rock, Blues Rock | 9 Tracks

ARTIST: Bob Dylan

ALBUM: Highway 61 Rivisited

LABEL: Columbia/Legacy

FORMAT: Vinile 180g, Lp, Album

RELEASE DATE: 20/11/2015

FIRST PUBLICATION DATE: 30/08/1965

GENRE: Folk Rock, Blues Rock

TRACKS

A1. Like a Rolling Stone - 6:13
A2. Tombstone Blues - 6:01
A3. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry - 4:09
A4. From a Buick 6 - 3:19
A5. Ballad of a Thin Man - 5:59
B1. Queen Jane Approximately - 5:32
B2. Highway 61 Revisited - 3:30
B3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues - 5:32
B4. Desolation Row - 11:23

FORMATION:

Bob Dylan – voce, chitarra, armonica, pianoforte, sirena della polizia
Mike Bloomfield – chitarra
Al Kooper – organo, pianoforte
Paul Griffin – pianoforte, organo, piano elettrico
Charlie McCoy – Chitarra
Harvey Brooks alias Harvey Goldstein – basso
Bobby Gregg – batteria
Sam Lay – batteria
Frank Owens – pianoforte
Russ Savakus – basso

"What can a record called Highway 61 Revisited be, if not a journey through the blues route, which departs from New Orleans and after 1400 miles reaches Wyoming, Minnesota? A journey through sounds, people, stories, cultures, telling of things that were unchanging at a time when everything was changing or preparing to do so ('68 was looming), preparing a new world, at least in the dreams of some. What Dylan feels is precisely this sense of inadequacy, this social change that is already taking place and that must be communicated, even to oneself. And so folk that is too wrapped up in itself is no longer enough, neither traditional blues nor rock'n'roll, what is needed is a new sound, capable of synthesising everything that has been and giving it a new form that reflects the reality of that time. The album's opener is all this and more, because Like a Rolling Stone is more than just a great song, more than a new way of interweaving guitar licks, vocals and organ, of asking asthetically "How Does It Feel?". It's a metaphor for that rolling around that bluesmen know so well, and which here becomes a vehicle for something bigger: the incitement to be oneself and risk everything to be so, in a way that American society had never heard and that not everyone was willing to accept, because the courage to do so is for few and true freedom unattainable, except through a higher self-awareness that was already digging into the certainties of part of the collective without its knowledge."
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