Bob Dylan's First Entirely Rock-Backed Album Marks Sea Change in Sound of Popular Music: Highway 61 Revisited Includes "Ballad of a Thin Man," "Desolation Row," "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" Ranked
#4 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List:
Album-Opening "Like a Rolling Stone" Challenging, Bold, Revolutionary -
And Arguably the Best Rock Song Ever Recorded
Its title
references the road that spans North Minnesota to the Mississippi Delta,
and the formative blues, country, and roots sounds connected to its
existence. The highway also lays claim to towering musical myths and
deaths, many tied to the blues lexicon and narrative.
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