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Highway 61 runs from Duluth, Minnesota, where Bob Dylan was born, 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 Louis and Memphis, following the Mississippi River valley for most of its 1,400 miles (2,300 km).
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 ...
The highway is often called the Blues Highway because of its long history in blues music; part of the route lies on the Mississippi Blues Trail and is denoted by markers in Vicksburg and Tunica. [1] [2] It is also the subject of numerous musical works, with the route inspiring the album Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan.
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"). [2] [3] It is made up of lines taken from older blues songs combined with Dylan's own lyrics. [2]
In addition to its appearance on the Highway 61 Revisited album, "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" was included on the compilation album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II (known as More Bob Dylan Greatest Hits in Europe) [9] and on another compilation released exclusively in Europe titled Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2.
The song was originally released in 1965 on the album Highway 61 Revisited. An incomplete early take of the song, immediately preceding the master and featuring organ fills by Paul Griffin, was released on the 6-disc and 18-disc editions of The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 in 2015.
"From a Buick 6" is a song by Bob Dylan from his album Highway 61 Revisited, which was also released as a single on the B-side of "Positively 4th Street". It was recorded on July 30, 1965. It was recorded on July 30, 1965.
The state highway commission ruled in 1957 that US 61 and US 218 were to follow the bypass around the city meaning maintenance of Main Street would revert to the city. The state reversed their decision in 1959 shortly before the bypass opened and left US 218 on the original routing.