Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan completely dismantled the boundary between folk poetry and electric blues with the title track to Highway 61 Revisited. Recorded in New York during the summer of 1965, the session was driven by the blistering, blues-drenched guitar work of Mike Bloomfield and the rolling piano of Paul Griffin. Dylan famously utilized a cheap "Siren Whistle" prop, blowing it chaotically between his rapid-fire, surreal verses about the famous American blues highway. The resulting track was a kinetic, wildly energetic collision of country-blues structures and avant-garde beat poetry, propelled by a heavy rock-and-roll backbeat.