What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

BOB DYLAN "highway 61 revisited" 1965

studio albums......36
singles................58

this album............#3 US...#4 UK...#2 AU
singles:
"like a rolling stone"..........#8 UK...#2 AU

Bob's sixth studio album and his first real move away from folk....
album is #4 on the Rolling Stone 'greatest albums of all time' list
and "like a rolling stone' is #1 on the RS 'greatest songs of all time' list....
this is almost the perfect album...even though I prefer "infidels" rom the mid 1980s....
the album opens up with Dylan (or Judas) spitting and snarling his way through 'like a rolling stone' and it doesn't end
there. he actually tries to sing on several tracks and theyre all uptempo, "tombstone blues' sounds a lot like the sounds
modern UK singer Jake Bugg is making on his albums, but then again Dyaln was his biggest influence...
so, the album rocks and rolls over eight tracks, then we get to the nineth and final track, Desolation Blues, in which Dylan
is accompanied with acoustic guitar and harmonica in an eleven minute epic piece of storytelling...
its this final track that is my favourite on here, and I really hope there is a youtube link to the track, if not I will post a link
for whatever track I can find because for some reason Dylan's tracks are few and far between on YT...
all up, probably rates higher than "infidels" for me, but that one is still my 'go to' Dylan album...

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: ballad of a thin man
best track: desolation row

sorry, no links for the tracks on this album except a few live versions, and as we all know,
Dylan was never the greatest live performer, so im not putting sub standard links up!

just for your info though, this album is definitely worth getting, even for the casual Dylan listener

tracks:

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 **
6...queen jane approximately ***
7...highway 61 revisited ***
8...just like tom thunb's blues ***
9...desolation row ***

rating: 2.9