Released in the summer of 1965, just weeks after Dylan’s electrified Newport Folk Festival set sent shockwaves through the folk world, this record captured a songwriter in full creative eruption. Michael Bloomfield’s stinging lead guitar and Al Kooper’s Hammond organ work on “Like a Rolling Stone” set a new standard for what rock and roll could carry lyrically and sonically, and “Desolation Row” closed everything out with eleven minutes of surrealist American mythology that still hasn’t been fully decoded.

Tracklist

Side A

A1. Like A Rolling Stone (5:59)
A2. Tombstone Blues (5:53)
A3. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (3:25)
A4. From A Buick 6 (3:06)
A5. Ballad Of A Thin Man (5:48)

Side B

B1. Queen Jane Approximately (4:57)
B2. Highway 61 Revisited (3:15)
B3. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (5:08)
B4. Desolation Row (11:18)

UPC: 888751463011
Label: Imports
Release Date: 9.18.15
Format: LP Vinyl