Bob Dylan – Highway 61, Revisited, 60 Years Later｜Vinyl Monday
We’ll just put some bleachers out in the sun and have it on Highway 61.
Welcome (or welcome back) to Vinyl Monday! This is my series where I give the who/what/when/where/why and how I feel about classic albums in my collection. My thoughts on Bob Dylan’s Highway 61, Revisited, released 60 years ago this week…ish. Subscribe for more Vinyl Monday!
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Timestamps:
intro – 0:00
art/packaging/personnel – 1:47
Like A Rolling Stone – 6:01
newport – 11:45
track listing/release – 18:09
Highway 61, Revisited – 20:55
thanks for watching! – 48:25
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@abigaildevoe
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
what’s your favorite 60s dylan song? (yes i will count i’ll keep it with mine.) comment below!
@MisterranďallWordcraft
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
My favorite album is a 3way tie… Highway 61 Revisited, Lola vs powean añd yhe moneygoround, and Hot Rats.y 2nd favorite album is also a 3way toe…
Tubular Bells, the lion and the cobra, and Jagged Little Pill.
@zamplify
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
I definitely don't contain multitudes. Not sure I contain much of anything really.
@geozipper
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
It's "Rim-BAAHHD" not "Rim-BODE."
@geozipper
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Where do I find your post tabs?? Where are the hints to future albums??
@nikolic-sq5rx
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
best rolling stones song is "like a rolling stone", and best dylan song is "sympathy for the devil"
@nikolic-sq5rx
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
I don t like bob dylan – but I like his music, I don t like neil young – and I don t like his music, I am 66 years old…
@VeEmCe
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Just discovered this channel, one of the best critics on youtube. This is real journalism: rigor, history, context, commentary, art. View count a few orders of magnitude off what the quality of the content deserves.
@zikihowdreams2073
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
My favourite record by Dylan followed by Blonde On Blonde, the electric era of Dylan is so dominant in this album maybe a album that make the difference in Folk music
@MarkScheppner
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Abigail is frantically universe of smarts and does a great Dylan impressive acting. Watching is better than any highway 61 drive through Minnesota
@rogermansour6085
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Do you there's an oldie named after you. Abigail Beecher by Freddy Cannon. As as as Dylan my favorite album is Saved since I'm an evangelist. You going to have to serve somebody!!Also love Knocking on heavens door.
Roger Mansour former Leslie West Vagrants Drummer
@danielkroha5440
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
It’s worth seeking out two early Bobby Gregg 45s, “The Jam” and “Potato Peeler”. They came out around ’62, ‘63 and feature Roy Buchanan on lead guitar. Burning r&b instrumentals kind of in the vein of Booker T and the MGs.
@grabham59
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
45:47 – "Connective Tissue" – there's a phrase with multiple meanings….but also, are you slightly synaesthesic?…
@grabham59
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
With Regard to the Bob Dylan Bar Crawl – if you ever make it to London, can I suggest we expand on this, and recreate Don't Look Back in as many original locations as possible? 1:08 I'm putting myself down as Alan Price from The Animals or possibly by this point Allen Ginsburg (I'm probably the right age difference). I think Emma could make a great Joan Baez…
@abrahamtimm8122
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Shoutout to MCR's cover of Desolation Row
@felixVanDiemen
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Brilliant review! I was given this album when I was 12 and never looked back (pun intended) 😎
@Dubsteppinout
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Great video. Outstanding.
@Adam-kn3tv
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
*Bob is from Brainerd, not Duluth. 😊
@kenkaplan3654
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
P.S. A few additional things to contemplate while listening to your second half. I agree "Tombstone Blues" is not only about Vietnam but about the depravity of the society that produced it. But that is the thrust of the entire album and Vietnam is the major focus or leverage point of the song. I don't think "Jack the Ripper" is "hiding anything". This society is so perverted it elevates great monsters openly to high official positions. It is in the ethos of the culture. This is a theme in "It's All Right Ma."
"Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred."
"Madonna-Whore complex." Great insight. Women were always a salvation for Dylan ("Shelter From the Storm". "Love Minus Zero" later love ballads) but he also had a side of contempt and rage ("Idiot wind").
I think Desolation Row represents Dylan's weariness after the intensity of the fury of the assault, a last panoramic view of this desolate landscape. I think it is dystopian more than post apocalyptic.
My favorites on the album are exactly yours.
@playnejayne5550
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Hank Williams' "Lost Highway" begins, "Like a rolling stone, all alone and lost. . ." I posted that a second before she mentioned it. Very thorough, this lady.
@greggibbs3639
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
Highway 61 was the main road through Duluth, where Dylan was born. Still goes up along Lake Superior. It extends down to Louisiana and New Orleans, so it connects the blues and jazz to Minnesota's old-timey radio, the north-south version of Highway 66.
@keithwoolcock
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 am
It’s a forgivable mistake, because it a French name , but Rimbaud is not pronounced as it is written. It’s pronounced as Rambo.
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