"Highway 61 Revisited (song) ""Highway 61 Revisited"" is the title track of Bob Dylan's 1965 album ""Highway 61 Revisited"". It was also released as the B-side to the single ""Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?"" later the same year. In 2004, ""Rolling Stone"" magazine ranked the song as number 373 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Highway 61 runs from Duluth, Minnesota, where Bob Dylan grew up in the 1940s and 1950s down to New Orleans, Louisiana. It was a major transit route out of the Deep South particularly for African Americans traveling north to Chicago, St"
"career-defining track,"" and the song continued as a staple of his live performances. A 10-minute version of the song appears on his 1976 live album, ""Captured Live!"", and he also performed it live in 1992 for ""The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration"" album, which saluted Dylan's three decades as a recording artist. Ex-Dr Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson included ""Highway 61 Revisited"" in his concert sets in the late 1970s and released a live recording of the song on an EP given away with his 1978 album ""Solid Senders"". The recording now forms part of the album's CD release. In 1987, Dr"
"""Highway 61 Revisited"", and ""Blonde on Blonde"". In July 1966, Dylan withdrew from touring after being injured in a motorcycle accident. During this period he recorded a large body of songs with members of the Band, who had previously backed Dylan on tour; these were eventually released as the collaborative album ""The Basement Tapes"" in 1975. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dylan explored country music and rural themes in ""John Wesley Harding"", ""Nashville Skyline"", and ""New Morning"". In 1975 Dylan released the album ""Blood on the Tracks"", which many saw as a return to form, followed by the"
"ever done before. I get bored easily, and my mission, which starts out wide, becomes very dim after a few failed takes and this and that."" In the same interview Dylan cited Buddy Holly as an influence during the recording sessions. In relation to past works like ""Highway 61 Revisited"", ""Blood on the Tracks"", and ""Infidels"", Dylan said: The album's cover art is a blurry photo of Dylan in the recording studio, taken by Lanois. The first track on this album is the sparsely recorded ""Love Sick"", which was later also released as a single. Daniel Lanois later said about"
"Rita Chiarelli Rita Chiarelli is a Canadian blues singer. She has been dubbed ""the goddess of Canadian blues"" by CBC Radio One's Shelagh Rogers. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Chiarelli began performing in Ronnie Hawkins' band in the early 1980s. She subsequently spent several years in Italy. When she returned to Canada, she quickly attracted the attention of film director Bruce McDonald, who included her ""Have You Seen My Shoes?"" on the soundtrack to his 1989 film ""Roadkill"". Chiarelli and Colin Linden subsequently recorded a cover of Bob Dylan's ""Highway 61 Revisited"" for McDonald's 1991 film ""Highway 61"", and"
"Salon.com, Bill Wyman wrote: """"Blood on the Tracks"" is his only flawless album and his best produced; the songs, each of them, are constructed in disciplined fashion. It is his kindest album and most dismayed, and seems in hindsight to have achieved a sublime balance between the logorrhea-plagued excesses of his mid-1960s output and the self-consciously simple compositions of his post-accident years."" Novelist Rick Moody called it ""the truest, most honest account of a love affair from tip to stern ever put down on magnetic tape."" In the middle of that year, Dylan wrote a ballad championing boxer Rubin ""Hurricane"""
"Highway 61 (film) Highway 61 is a 1991 film by Canadian director Bruce McDonald. The film is an unofficial sequel to his 1989 film ""Roadkill""; although focusing on different characters, it centres on a road trip beginning in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where the road trip depicted in the earlier film ended. The film stars Don McKellar as Pokey Jones, an orphaned barber in a small town near Thunder Bay, who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. One morning, Jones discovers a frozen corpse (Steve Fall) in his backyard, and soon meets Jackie Bangs (Valerie Buhagiar), a tough and mysterious roadie"
"Waters, Son House, Elvis Presley and Charley Patton. The ""empress of the blues"", Bessie Smith, died after sustaining serious injuries in an automobile accident on Highway 61. Critic Mark Polizzotti points out that blues legend Robert Johnson is alleged to have sold his soul to the devil at the highway's crossroads with Route 49. The highway had also been the subject of several blues recordings, notably Roosevelt Sykes' ""Highway 61 Blues"" (1932) and Mississippi Fred McDowell's ""61 Highway"" (1964). Dylan has stated that he had to overcome considerable resistance at Columbia Records to give the album its title. He told"
"private performance of his new songs; immediately after Dylan left the room, Stills remarked to Nash, ""He's a good songwriter ... but he's no musician."" Initially, Dylan considered recording ""Blood on the Tracks"" with an electric backing group, and contacted Mike Bloomfield who had played lead guitar on Dylan's ""Highway 61 Revisited"" album. When the two met, Dylan ran through the songs he was planning to record, but he played them too quickly for Bloomfield to learn. Bloomfield later recalled the experience: ""They all began to sound the same to me; they were all in the same key; they were"
"On the Road (The Country Gentlemen album) On the Road is a live album by the bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1963. It continues to offer some of the best collection of songs by the first classic lineup of the group. The album originally contained 13 songs, selection from 2 concerts in 1962 and 1963. In 2001, Smithsonian Folkways re-released the album as a CD with 6 bonus tracks, recorded at Carnegie Hall on September 16, 1961.The album offers blend of folk and bluegrass music, while expanding compositions of Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley as well as traditional songs to"
"Feelgood also covered the song for their album ""Classic"", a track Allmusic describes as ""utterly inspired."" The song has been recorded by P.J. Harvey on her 1993 album ""Rid of Me"". ""Paste"" magazine selected this version as the 15th best cover of a Dylan song of all time, while also paying homage to ""Johnny Winter's classic electric-blues version."" ""Highway 61 Revisited"" has been covered by Billy Joel. The song highlights a selection of covers that appear on his 2005 box set ""My Lives"". Terry Reid recorded a version of the song. The song has been recorded by Steve Gibbons on"
"""Highway 61 Revisited"" and ""Blonde on Blonde"", toward songs that were more intimate and which drew on many styles of traditional American music. While some of the basement songs are humorous, others dwell on nothingness, betrayal and a quest for salvation. In general, they possess a rootsy quality anticipating the Americana genre. For some critics, the songs on ""The Basement Tapes"", which circulated widely in unofficial form, mounted a major stylistic challenge to rock music in the late sixties. When Columbia Records prepared the album for official release in 1975, eight songs recorded solely by The Band—in various locations between"
"in Chronological Order of Charley Patton, Blind Willie McTell and the Mississippi Sheiks"". Bob Dylan paid tribute to McTell on at least four occasions. In his 1965 song ""Highway 61 Revisited,"" the second verse begins, ""Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose,"" a reference to one of McTell's many recording names. Dylan's song ""Blind Willie McTell"" was recorded in 1983 and released in 1991 on ""The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3"". Dylan also recorded covers of McTell's ""Broke Down Engine"" and ""Delia"" on his 1993 album, ""World Gone Wrong""; Dylan's song ""Po' Boy"", on the album ""Love and Theft"" (2001), contains"
"the more progressive bluegrass sound. On the Road (The Country Gentlemen album) On the Road is a live album by the bluegrass band Country Gentlemen, recorded in 1963. It continues to offer some of the best collection of songs by the first classic lineup of the group. The album originally contained 13 songs, selection from 2 concerts in 1962 and 1963. In 2001, Smithsonian Folkways re-released the album as a CD with 6 bonus tracks, recorded at Carnegie Hall on September 16, 1961.The album offers blend of folk and bluegrass music, while expanding compositions of Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley as"
"a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"" has been covered by numerous artists, including The Grateful Dead, Super Session featuring Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield and Steven Stills, The Allman Brothers Band, Marianne Faithfull, Jerry Garcia, Stephen Stills, Iain Matthews, Leon Russell, Little Feat, Chris Smither, Taj Mahal, Steve Earle, Levon Helm, Toto, Tracy Nelson, Blue Cheer & Bun E. Carlos. The version of the song on ""Highway 61 Revisited"" is an acoustic/electric blues song, one of three blues songs on the album (the others being ""From a Buick 6"" and ""Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues""). It is"
"Highway 101 Highway 101 is an American country music band founded by Paulette Carlson (lead vocals), Jack Daniels (guitar), Curtis Stone (bass guitar, mandolin) and Scott ""Cactus"" Moser (drums). With Carlson as lead vocalist, the band recorded three albums for Warner Bros. Records Nashville and charted ten consecutive Top Ten hits on the Hot Country Songs charts, four of which went to Number One. After Carlson left in 1990 to pursue a solo career, the band recorded a fourth album for Warner with Nikki Nelson on lead vocals before exiting the label. One album each followed on Liberty, Intersound and"
"in Willow Springs, Illinois. Floyd Jones Floyd Jones (July 21, 1917 – December 19, 1989) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. He was one of the first of the new generation of electric blues artists to record in Chicago after World War II, and a number of his recordings are regarded as classics of the Chicago blues idiom. His song ""On the Road Again"" was a top 10 hit for Canned Heat in 1968. Notably for a blues artist of his era, several of his songs have economic or social themes, such as ""Stockyard Blues"" (which refers to"
"The first take was recorded during an evening session on July 29, 1965 with Harvey Brooks on electric bass and Al Kooper on electric guitar. This version was eventually released in 2005 on """". On August 2, Dylan recorded five further takes of ""Desolation Row"". The ""Highway 61 Revisited"" version was recorded at an overdub session on August 4, 1965, in Columbia's Studio A in New York City. Nashville-based guitarist Charlie McCoy, who happened to be in New York, was invited by producer Bob Johnston to contribute an improvised acoustic guitar part and Russ Savakus played bass guitar. Polizzotti credits"
"produced by Paul Worley and Ed Seay, with Larry Butler producing the rest. Reunited (Highway 101 album) Reunited is an album released in 1996 by Highway 101. The album's title refers to the return of the band's original lead singer, Paulette Carlson, to the lineup. At the time, drummer Cactus Moser was not included in the lineup. Included on it are four of the band's earlier singles, ""The Bed You Made for Me"", ""Setting Me Up"", ""All the Reason Why"" and ""Walkin', Talkin', Cryin', Barely Beatin' Broken Heart"". Two singles were released from the album, ""Where'd You Get Your Cheatin'"
"hanging/ They're painting the passports brown."" Seven of the songs on the album originally appeared on the Dylan albums ""Bringing It All Back Home"" and ""Highway 61 Revisited""; the remaining three represent ""Blonde on Blonde"", ""John Wesley Harding"", and the Leon Russell session that produced ""Watching the River Flow"" for the ""Greatest Hits II"" double-LP. Aside from being from among his most critically revered rock albums, the seven songs date from 1965, the year the long strange trip of the Grateful Dead began. The songs remained in the Dead's live rotation throughout their existence. Conspicuously absent from the compilation is"
"in August 1997. ""Highway 61 Revisited"" has remained among the most highly acclaimed of Dylan's works. Biographer Anthony Scaduto praises its rich imagery, and describes it as ""one of the most brilliant pop records ever made. As rock, it cuts through to the core of the music—a hard driving beat without frills, without self-consciousness."" Michael Gray calls ""Highway 61"" ""revolutionary and stunning, not just for its energy and panache but in its vision: fusing radical, electrical music ... with lyrics that were light years ahead of anyone else's; Dylan here unites the force of blues-based rock'n'roll with the power of"
"album. Leading with the hit single ""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. 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. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans, and the Delta blues area of Mississippi. ""Highway 61 Revisited"" peaked at No. 3 in the United States charts and No. 4 in the United Kingdom. The album was ranked No. 4 on ""Rolling Stone""s"
"DVD entitled ""Christmas On Highway 101."" The new DVD features professionally filmed live performances and guest appearances by country music notables such as Wynonna Judd, to whom Moser is married. As of 2011, Highway 101 continue to tour the world with their current lineup consisting of Nikki, Cactus, Andy and Curtis. In August 2012, Moser was involved in a motorcycle accident, which resulted in the amputation of a leg above the knee. In 2005 Paulette Carlson returned to the studio to produce an album after writing a song called ""Thank You Vets"" and feeling that the song needed to be"
"on ""Highway 61 Revisited"" were Mike Bloomfield on electric guitar, Al Kooper on Hohner Pianet; a type of electro-mechanical piano, Paul Griffin on piano, Harvey Brooks on bass guitar and Bobby Gregg on drums. According to Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin, on early takes of the song, Sam Lay was the drummer and Frank Owens played piano. In Heylin's opinion, Gregg's jazzier drumming and Griffin's more fluid piano playing better communicated the feeling of dislocation that Dylan desired for the song. Take 5 of the song, which, according to Heylin, featured both Lay and Owens, was included on the 2005 album"
"""Blood on the Tracks""—continues to deepen the Don-Juan-in-Hell persona this English eccentric has explored throughout the decade. Backed by American session men (notably guitarist Waddy Wachtel), Ferry acts out The Revenge of Lust, a tale that leaves all parties free to indulge their cruelest, most self-pitying instincts, and then pay for them. From “Can’t Let Go,” an extraordinarily dramatic account of a lover in exile, to “Hold On I’m Coming,” the latest in Ferry’s string of unlikely and successful covers, the record is glamorous, bitter, effete and passionate. As always, Ferry sings in the voice of Dracula risen from the"
"rock and roller"", Sam Sutherland wrote in ""High Fidelity"". Most of the songs on ""Highway 61 Revisited"" have remained important, in varying degrees, to Dylan's live performances since 1965. According to his website, he has played ""Like a Rolling Stone"" over 2,000 times, ""Highway 61 Revisited"" more than 1,700 times, ""Ballad of a Thin Man"" over 1,000 times, and most of the other songs between 150 and 500 times. The influence of the songs on ""Highway 61 Revisited"" can be heard in many cover versions. ""Like a Rolling Stone"" has been recorded by artists including the Rolling Stones, on their"
"in his work ""Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music 1955-1965"" dedicated a number of pages to Brooks. Of his composition ""Street Singer"", Rosenthal wrote it is ""an authentic hard-bop classic"" where ""pathos, irony and rage come together in a performance at once anguished and sinister."" ""All compositions by Tina Brooks except those indicated"" ""Track 2 recorded on September 1, 1960; the other tracks on October 20, 1960."" Back to the Tracks Back to the Tracks is a hard bop album by tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks recorded in 1960 and released posthumously. The tracks first appeared in a Mosaic 12"" LP"
"2004 was named by ""Rolling Stone"" as the #1 song of all time. The remainder of the ""Highway 61 Revisited"" album was recorded between July 29 and August 4, 1965. Gregg was the drummer for the July 29 and 30 sessions that produced ""Tombstone Blues"", ""It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"" and ""From a Buick 6"". He was also the drummer for the July 29 recording of ""Positively 4th Street"", which was left off the ""Highway 61 Revisited"" album but became a Top 10 single in both the United States and the UK. At"
"about Dylan's marriage. In his 2004 memoir, ""Chronicles, Vol. 1"", Dylan stated that the songs have nothing to do with his own personal life, and that they were inspired by the short stories of Anton Chekhov. Released in early 1975, ""Blood on the Tracks"" initially received mixed reviews from critics. ""Rolling Stone"" published two assessments. The first, by Jonathan Cott, called it ""Dylan's magnificent new album"". The second reviewer, Jon Landau, wrote that ""the record has been made with typical shoddiness."" In the ""NME"", Nick Kent described ""the accompaniments [as] often so trashy they sound like mere practice takes"", while"
"""Highway 61"" sessions as noted by Tony Glover in the liner notes to ""Live 1966"". Other accounts say that the whistle was brought in by Al Kooper. It is said that he had originally brought in the slide whistle to police the sessions. Supposedly, if someone were to begin doing drugs he would go into a corner and blow on the whistle. He later suggested to Dylan that he use the whistle in this song instead of his harmonica. In 1969, Johnny Winter covered ""Highway 61 Revisited"" on his second Columbia release, ""Second Winter"". Winter's rendition is regarded as ""a"
"(Hensley's solo songs re-recorded in 2005). Featuring a number of special guests, the rock opera ""Blood on the Highway"" was recorded at the end of 2006 and released in May 2007. The story portrays the rise and fall of a rock'n'roll star and the eventual restart. The lead vocals role was split between Hensley himself, plus Glenn Hughes (ex-Deep Purple, Trapeze, Black Sabbath), Jorn Lande (ex-The Snakes, Masterplan), John Lawton (ex-Lucifer's Friend, Uriah Heep) and Eve Gallagher. In September 2008, Hensley went on stage again with John Lawton, Lee Kerslake and Paul Newton, all of Uriah Heep fame plus the"
"Reunited (Highway 101 album) Reunited is an album released in 1996 by Highway 101. The album's title refers to the return of the band's original lead singer, Paulette Carlson, to the lineup. At the time, drummer Cactus Moser was not included in the lineup. Included on it are four of the band's earlier singles, ""The Bed You Made for Me"", ""Setting Me Up"", ""All the Reason Why"" and ""Walkin', Talkin', Cryin', Barely Beatin' Broken Heart"". Two singles were released from the album, ""Where'd You Get Your Cheatin' From"" and ""It Must Be Love."" Tracks 2, 5, 8, and 9 were"
"writing and recording the song washed away his dissatisfaction, and restored his enthusiasm for creating music. Describing the experience to Robert Hilburn in 2004, nearly 40 years later, Dylan said: ""It's like a ghost is writing a song like that ... You don't know what it means except the ghost picked me to write the song."" ""Highway 61 Revisited"" was recorded in two blocks of recording sessions that took place in Studio A of Columbia Records, located in Midtown Manhattan. The first block, June 15 and June 16, was produced by Tom Wilson and resulted in the single ""Like a"