Bob Dylan's 'Highway 61 Revisited' turns 55 today. Here, we go inside the album that destroyed folk music and set a new standard for Sixties pop
came together. If Dylan’s acoustic guitar served as the jumping-off point for the music on, here it’s Bloomfield’s electric, which references the blues but reaches out to country twang and rockabilly snap. But when they moved on to “Like a Rolling Stone,” the five takes they tried didn’t jell. “The voice is gone, man,” Dylan said after the fourth take.
With Kooper supplying a bed of organ and Griffin at the piano, it took two rehearsals and four takes for “Like a Rolling Stone” to come together – though they kept going through 11 more takes, still searching, as if unaware of the history they’d made. Just five days after “Like a Rolling Stone” was released, with the song burning up the radio, Dylan appeared at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric band.
Then came Dylan’s next single, and what many felt was his retort to the boos at Newport and the reaction of folkie purists to his electric music: “Positively 4th Street.” Some of Dylan’s most acidic put-downs floated on Kooper’s roller-rink organ and stabs of guitar outrage from Bloomfield. Issued as a non-LP single on September 7th, it would follow “Like a Rolling Stone” up theDylan and Kooper spent the first weekend of August in Woodstock.
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