Highway 61 Revisited
Occupation
- Bob Dylan - voc, g, harm, p,
- Al Kooper - org, p
- Michael Bloomfield - g
- Harvey Brooks - bg
- Paul Griffin - p, org
- Frank Owens - p
- Russ Savakus - bg
- Bobby Gregg - dr
- Sam Lay - dr
- Charlie McCoy - g
Production
- Bob Johnston
- Tom Wilson on "Like A Rolling Stone"
Studios
Highway 61 Revisited is the book published in August 1965 sixth studio album by American songwriter Bob Dylan.
Most music magazines include the album to the previously top ten rock albums. Included on it is excellent as the best song of all time by Rolling Stone magazine 2004 Title Like a Rolling Stone. The album itself was chosen by the magazine on its list of the 500 best albums of all time on the fourth place. It peaked in the U.S. charts and number 3 in the UK 4th place The single Like a Rolling Stone in the U.S. reached number 2 in the UK and 4th place
The album meant for Dylan to complete the transformation from folk singer to rock star. Dylan was in the year 1965/1966 on the first peak of his career, was followed by the double-album Blonde on Blonde. Music critics and fans often disagree on whether Highway 61 Revisited represents or Blonde on Blonde the high point in Dylan's discography of the 1960 - year.
The songs of this album are frequently played by Bob Dylan at his concerts.
Formation
Dylan named the album after the U.S. Highway 61, which connects Duluth city of his birth with the important Blue cities of the South, such as St. Louis, Memphis or New Orleans. The Highway 61 extended at that time to the birthplaces of important and famous blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Son House, Charley Patton and Elvis Presley, who in the 1950s at Sun Records in Memphis in the emergence of rock ' n' roll was heavily involved. All of these musicians had a great musical influence on Dylan.
Also, the Highway 61 itself garnered many myths and legends around. In his autobiography Chronicles: Volume One tells Dylan that he had a " feeling of kinship " to the road. The Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith was killed in an accident on Highway 61 and Robert Johnson was said to have the devil sold to the junction where meet Highway 61 and Highway 49 his soul to become a better guitarist. This pact with the devil is also reason for Johnson's early death at the age of only 27 years.
Dylan on Highway 61 Revisited united the musical influences that had migrated to the U.S. Highway 61 over the decades. From early blues to add contemporary rock 'n ' roll; Dylan had already removed at his vorrangegangenem album Bringing It All Back Home by the folk music and turned towards the rock music. He melded blues, folk and rock ' n ' roll to folk-rock; a genre that should have the major influence on the sound of the 1960s and the Flowerpower.
The album was recorded in different recording blocks. Dylan was dissatisfied returned in May 1965 by a UK tour and had 20 pages written angry and frustrated full of sarcastic verses. He shortened it eventually became a song, which ultimately Like a Rolling Stone was born. Dylan recorded the song on 15 and 16 June in several versions under the production of Tom Wilson. It Also Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry and Sitting on a Barbed Wire Fence emerged, but these recordings were not used for the album and appeared in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vol 1-3.
On July 25, Dylan had his controversially - discussed appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, where he and his band were booed when they began, electrically amplified to play the pieces. They returned to the studio and from July 29 to August 2, finally emerged the master takes, which should be heard on the finished album. The recordings were now headed by Bob Johnston. Solely Like a Rolling Stone was not from these sessions. Besides the songs of the Highway 61 Revisited album and the two singles Positively 4th Street and Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window emerged.