Dylan was virtually gushing great songs when this masterpiece arrived in the summer of 1965. For the epochal opening of "Like a Rolling Stone" through the absurdly apocalyptic closer, "Desolation Row", his command of surrealistic language was daring and amazing. As a vocalist, he was rewriting the rules of the game. Jimi Hendrix made note of Mr Z's technically suspect pitch and decided that he, too was a singer. And the backing, though ragged, is precisely right. Is this the essential Dylan album? It's certainly one of them. -- Steven Stolder
Track Listing
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
