Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as “Blowin’ in the Wind” (1963) and “The Times They Are a-Changin'” (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and anti-war movements. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning 60 years. Robert Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author and visual artist. 373 respectively.įormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, 180 GramĪ3 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 3:25 Two other songs, “Desolation Row” and “Highway 61 Revisited”, were listed at No. 1 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. “Like a Rolling Stone” was a top-10 hit in several countries, and was listed at No. 26 in the third edition of Colin Larkin’s All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000) and was featured in Robert Dimery’s 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (2010). 4 on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”. Positively received on release, the album has since been described as one of Dylan’s best works and among the greatest albums of all time, ranking No. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, and the Delta blues area of Mississippi. He named the album after the major American highway which connected his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage, including St. Leading with the hit song “Like a Rolling Stone”, the album features songs that Dylan has continued to perform live over his long career, including “Ballad of a Thin Man” and the title track. Author Michael Gray has argued that, in an important sense, the 1960s “started” with this album. Critics have focused on the innovative way Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of contemporary America.
Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing track, the 11-minute ballad “Desolation Row”. Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on Augby Columbia Records.
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