highway 61 revisited

• bob dylan'ın 6. albümüdür, dylan'ın artık klasikleştiğinin kanıtıdır, nitekim kendisi ilk best of' unu bu albümden sonra çıkarmıştır. track list'i şöyle gider:
  
  like a rolling stone
  tombstone blues
  it takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry
  from a buick 6
  ballad of a thin man
  queen jane approximately
  highway 61 revisited
  just like tom thumb's blues
  desolation row
• tanrı'nın abraham'dan oğlu kurban etmesini istemesine (genesis 22) değinir.
• şarkının en büyük önemi herhalde yaptığı küstah,ben merkezci tanrı tanımıdır.
• (bkz: frygt og baeno)
• sözleri de şöyledir:
  
  oh god said to abraham, "kill me a son"
  abe says, "man, you must be puttin' me on"
  god say, "no." abe say, "what?"
  god say, "you can do what you want abe, but
  the next time you see me comin' you better run"
  well abe says, "where do you want this killin' done?"
  god says, "out on highway 61."
  
  well georgia sam he had a bloody nose
  welfare department they wouldn't give him no clothes
  he asked poor howard where can i go
  howard said there's only one place i know
  sam said tell me quick man i got to run
  0l' howard just pointed with his gun
  and said that way down on highway 61.
  
  well mack the finger said to louie the king
  i got forty red white and blue shoe strings
  and a thousand telephones that don't ring
  do you know where i can get rid of these things
  and louie the king said let me think for a minute son
  and he said yes i think it can be easily done
  just take everything down to highway 61.
  
  now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
  told the first father that things weren't right
  my complexion she said is much too white
  he said come here and step into the light he says hmm you're right
  let me tell the second mother this has been done
  but the second mother was with the seventh son
  and they were both out on highway 61.
  
  now the rovin' gambler he was very bored
  he was tryin' to create a next world war
  he found a promoter who nearly fell off the floor
  he said i never engaged in this kind of thing before
  but yes i think it can be very easily done
  we'll just put some bleachers out in the sun
  and have it on highway 61.
• johnny winter yorumu mutlaka dinlenmesi gereken dylan $aheserlerindendir.
• mojo dergisinin aralik 2005 sayisi ile birlikte bir tribute versionu hediye edilen dylan klasigi album.
• tanrı dedi ki ibrahim'e;
  bana bir oğul öldür herhangi bir oğul,
  ibrahim dedi ki, benimle dalga geçiyor olmalısın
  tanrı hayır! dedi, ibrahim nasıl?
  tanrı şöyle devam etti: istediğini yapabilirsin ibrahim ne de olsa özgür irade var.
  ama kafanı kırarım gerekirse, özgürlük nereye kadar?
  ibrahim pes etti: bu cinayeti nerede işleyeyim istersin?
  tanrı konuyu kapattı: on highway 61!
• deeper blues dan dinlenilmesi gereken, dylan ın hakkında:
  
  "highway 61 begins about where i came from, duluth, to be exact." dediği eser.
• (bkz: pj harvey)