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"Positively 4th Street" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan, first recorded in New York City on July 29, 1965. [4] It was released as a single by Columbia Records on September 7, 1965, reaching No. 1 on Canada's RPM chart, No. 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 , and No. 8 on the UK Singles Chart .
It is the longest song in the electric section of the album, starting out as an acoustic ballad before being interrupted by laughter, and then starting back up again with an electric blues rhythm. The music is so similar in places to Another Side of Bob Dylan's "Motorpsycho Nitemare" as to be indistinguishable from it but for the electric ...
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited. Perennial Currents. ISBN 0-06-052569-X; Heylin, Clinton (2009). Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973. Cappella Books. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1556528439. Marqusee, Mike (2005). Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan And the 1960s. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 978-1583226865.
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965, by Columbia Records.Dylan continued the musical approach of his previous album Bringing It All Back Home (1965), using rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album in a further departure from his primarily acoustic folk sound, except for the closing track ...
Master takes of the four songs were selected and set aside for the final album. [2] Dylan later recorded the song as a demo for his music publisher, M. Witmark & Sons. This version, taped in April 1963 at Witmark's studio, was officially released in October 2010 on The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 – The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964. [3]
[3] [unreliable source] [2] Sixteen artists collaborated to compile the album, which was released on October 5, 2010, by Reimagine Music. [4] [5] The first eleven songs of the compilation appeared on Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home. The twelfth song was released only as a single, while the final four songs appeared on Dylan's official ...
Music journalist Rob Sheffield, writing in a 2020 Rolling Stone article where the song ranked 12th on a list of "The 25 Best Bob Dylan Songs of the 21st Century", called it "a highlight from Tempest", noting that it "has the edge of his most caustic Sixties putdowns, back when his idea of a good time was sneering 'She's Your Lover Now' or 'Ballad of a Thin Man' or 'Positively 4th Street ...