Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
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Release date: 02 February 2011
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- Like A Rolling Stone
- Tombstone Blues
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
- From A Buick 6
- Ballad Of A Thin Man
- Queen Jane Approximately
- Highway 61 Revisited
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
- Desolation Row
- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Live Version)
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Alternate Take)
- Tombstone Blues (Alternate Take)
- Desolation Row (Alternate Take)
- Ballad Of A Thin Man (Live Version)
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Live)
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Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited: Wikipedia Album Entry
Highway 61 Revisited is Bob Dylan's sixth studio album, released in 1965 by Columbia Records. It is Dylan's first album to be recorded entirely with a full rock band, after he experimented with the approach on half of Bringing It All Back Home. It is commonly tagged as documenting the "angry young man" period in Dylan's career, in-between the playfulness of its surrounding albums; many of the songs on Highway 61 are of an accusatory nature and feature rough, loud takes.
Featuring hits and concert staples such as "Like A Rolling Stone", "Desolation Row", and "Ballad Of A Thin Man", it is also generally considered to be among the artist's best and most influential efforts. Dylan himself commented, "I'm not gonna be able to make a record better than that one... Highway 61 is just too good. There's a lot of stuff on there that I would listen to."
The album peaked at #3 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart and #4 in the UK, while "Like A Rolling Stone" reached #2 on the US Pop Singles chart and #4 in the UK, also receiving the accolade of being placed #1 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The album itself was ranked #4 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Lyrics
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited Lyrics
Oh, God said to Abraham, "Kill me a son"
Abe says, "Man, you must be puttin' me on"
God say, "No", Abe say, "What?"
God say, "You can do what you want Abe, but
Bob Dylan - Ballad of a Thin Man Lyrics
You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say who is that man?
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row Lyrics
Theyâre selling postcards of the hanging
Theyâre painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Bob Dylan - From a Buick 6 Lyrics
I got this graveyard woman, you know she keeps my kids
But my soulful mama you know she keeps me hid
She's a junkyard angel and she always gives me bread
Well if I go down dyin' you know she's bound to put a blanket on my bed
Bob Dylan - It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Lyrics
And I ride on a mail train, baby, can't buy no thrill
Yes, I've been up all night, baby, leanin' on the window sill
Yeah, but if I die on top of the hill
And if I don't make it, you know my baby will
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Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Lyrics
When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Easter time too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
Bob Dylan - Queen Jane Approximately Lyrics
When your mother sends back all your invitations
And your father to your sister, he explains
That you're tired of yourself and all of your creations
Won't you come see me Queen Jane
Bob Dylan - Tombstone Blues Lyrics
The sweet pretty things are in bed now of course
The city fathers they're trying to endorse
The reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse
But the town has no need to be nervous
