The 30 August 1965 is published one of the greatest musical masterpieces, by Bob Dylan, of last century, Highway 61 Revisited. Is part of a trilogy begun five months earlier with Bringing It All Back Home and continued with Blonde On Blonde. Recorded in just six days in’ August 1965. The Highway 61 is an American road that runs from Minnesota (State of birth of Dylan) to the mouth of the Mississippi River. This work made of refined lyrics and dell’ use of the electric guitar, before Dylan was usually play that acoustics. Dylan said that nine songs as an overnight journey through l’ America full of beautiful strangers who do not return home. This trilogy of albums winds through of the sumptuous influences. If Bringing It All Back Home is inspired by the Beatles, Highway 61 It's a juxtaposition to Stones and Blonde on Blonde located on the paths of Smokey Robinson. And’ an album that has its own chorus running, There's a real band around Bob Dylan in the construction of this success. The song opens the album is "Like a Rolling Stone, become an anthem for generations. Rolling Stone magazine has chosen as the song of the century. The second track of Highway 61 Revisited is "Tombstone Blues", a frantic blues with verses of the kind “The Sun is not yellow, is a chicken… stop crying, swallow your pride.” "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry and "From a Buick 6 are a lament for an unrequited love set in a blues with piano and harmonica. Closes on side A "Ballad of a Thin Man, a piece that embodies the greatness of the’ Opera, an act of protest. The contrast between Dylan and criticism, where this’ last test, without having the necessary tools, understand what steps into the head of’ author. Attempt which sees Mr. Jones text to measure reality in painting deformed by characters who speak an unknown language. "Queen Jane Approximately It's a languid ballad backed by organ and harmonica that feeds on some references to the love story of Bob with Joan Baez. Highway 61 Revisited is the title track, the song naming all’ album. And’ a trip. A repository of the situations of’ entire human experience into a hypothetical trip on Route 61. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is a’ other ballad, that combines all the elements that you could track down in film noir, women of questionable morals, drugs, sex and corruption. Closes l’ album "Desolation Row", a long and powerful immersion in a river of desolation where reality and imagination blend. And this is what, one of the most beautiful album the music of 60 We could deliver.
Hector Parker
