Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by US singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in August 1965. Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing track, the 11-minute ballad Desolation Row.

Critics have focused on the innovative way Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of contemporary America. Author Michael Gray has argued that, in an important sense, the 1960s "started" with this album.

Leading with the iconic track Like a Rolling Stone, the album features songs that Dylan has continued to perform live over his long career, including Ballad of a Thin Man and the title track. He named the album after the major American highway which connected his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage, including St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans and the Delta blues area of Mississippi.