Bob Dylan Highway 61 Revisited

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Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth album released by Bob Dylan. The album reached platinum status and peaked at number three on the Billboard 200.^{1 2} The album released one of Bob Dylan's greatest hits titled, "Like A Rolling Stone." The single stayed on the U.S. charts for 12 weeks and peaked at number two.³

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1. Genre: Folk rock
2. Release date: August 30, 1965
3. Label: Columbia Records
4. Producers: Bob Johnston and Tom Wilson
5. Peak chart position: # 3¹
6. Single: "Like A Rolling Stone"
7. Album sales: 1.5 Million⁴
8. Ranked #4 on The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time⁵

1. "Like a Rolling Stone"
2. "Tombstone Blues"
3. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry"
4. "From a Buick 6"
5. "Ballad of a Thin Man"
6. "Queen Jane Approximately"
7. "Highway 61 Revisited"
8. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"
9. "Desolation Row"

"The result is Dylan’s hardest rocking album, an album of biting satire and vituperation, of fevered playing and controlled aggression."—Hank Kalet, PopMatters⁶

"This is the point where Dylan planted both feet firmly on the ground that had been partially turned on 1965’s 'Bringing It All Back Home', and started digging in."—Sid Smith, BBC⁷

"Dylan had not only changed his sound, but his persona, trading the folk troubadour for a streetwise, cynical hipster."—Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Allmusic⁸