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Highway 61 Revisited
by Bob Dylan

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
Ol' 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.

Bob Dylan Website

AKA: Robert Allen Zimmerman
Born: May 24, 1941 in Duluth, MN, USA
Years Performed: 1961 to present

Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman, on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota.
He grew up in the town of Hibbing, MN, where as a child he wrote poems.
He taught himself how to play piano and guitar in his early teens and formed a couple of bands,
Golden Chords and Elston Gunn and His Rock Boppers.
He loved the early rock of Elvis Presley, Little Richard as well as the country and folk singers Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie.

He is one of America's most highly regarded popular songwriters,
and his enduring contributions to the American oeuvre are comparable to those of
Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams.

Much of Dylan's best known work is from the 1960s,
when he became a documentarian and reluctant figurehead of American unrest.
Many involved in the civil rights movement found an anthem in his song "Blowin' In The Wind".
Millions of young people embraced "The Times They Are A-Changin'" as a rallying cry of the decade.

Dylan couldn't wait for the music to change.
He couldn't be only part of the change. He was the change itself.
The snake and the hurricane.
If you've been listening only in passing, you know, among other things, that the answer's blowin' in the wind,
the times they are a changin', everybody must get stoned,
they're selling postcards of the hanging, and that to live outside the law you must be honest.

Later, listening more closely, you found out that we're goin' all the way till the wheels fall off and burn,
that dignity's never been photographed, and that no one plays the blues like Blind Willie McTell.

Dylan expanded the vocabulary of popular music by incorporating
politics, social commentary, philosophy and literature.
In doing so he created a style which combines lyrical stream of consciousness
with often absurdist social and political moralizing,
defying folk music convention and appealing widely to the counterculture of the time.

While expanding and personalizing musical styles,
Dylan has nonetheless shown devotion to traditions of American song,
from folk and country/blues to rock 'n' roll and rockabilly, to Gaelic balladry, even jazz, swing and Broadway.

Dylan performs with the guitar, piano and harmonica.
Backed by a changing lineup of musicians, he has toured almost constantly since the late 1980s.
Although his contributions as performer and recording artist have been central to his career,
his songwriting is generally held as his highest accomplishment.

Those are legends and home truths, passed along in song,
that became part of a cultural vocabulary and an ongoing American myth.
Hundreds of songs; more than 500 and counting.
Forty-three albums; more than 57 million copies sold.
A series of dreams about America as it once and never was.

It was folk music, deep within its core,
from the mountains and the delta and the blacktop of Highway 61.
Rhythm and blues, too, and juke-joint rock 'n' roll,
and hymns from backwoods churches and gospel shouts from riverside baptisms.
He put all that together, and found words to match it.

Dylan was honored in the U.S. for artistic excellence with the Kennedy Center Honors.
Finally in 2001, he won the Academy Award for Best Song, "Things Have Changed".
Even more of an honor is the fact that since 1963, hundreds of other performers have record many of his songs.
No one else has written lyrics like Bob Dylan and I don't believe anyone else ever will.
The man is a true living prophet and a spokesman for the Counter Culture of the 60s & 70s.

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Bob Dylan - No Direction Home DVD
• Actors: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Liam Clancy, John Cohen, Allen Ginsberg, See more
• Directors: Martin Scorsese
• Number of discs: 2
• DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
The true excellence of Martin Scorsese's achievement lies
in how his documentary shakes us free of our comfortable assumptions.
In the process, it plays out on several levels at once,
each taking shape as an unfailingly fascinating narrative.
There is, of course,
the central story of an individual genius staking out his artistic identity.

Bob Dylan (1962)
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1962)
The Times They Are A- Changin' (1964)
Highway 61 Revisted (1965)
Bringing It All Back Home (1965)

Desire (1976)

Another Side of Bob Dylan (1965)
Blonde On Blonde (1966)
John Wesley Harding (1967)
Nashville Skyline (1969)
Blood On The Tracks (1975)

The Band
The Band Website

The members of The Band first worked together as The Hawks,
the backing band of rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins from 1959 until 1963.
Afterwards, Bob Dylan recruited the quintet for his history-making 1965/1966 world tour
and they joined him on the informal recordings that became the acclaimed Basement Tapes.

Dubbed "The Band" by their record company (a name derivative of what the group was referred to as during their tenure with Dylan),
the group left the comfort of their communal home in Woodstock to begin recording as a group unto themselves.

The Band recorded two of the most important albums of the late 1960s:
their 1968 debut Music from Big Pink (featuring the hit single "The Weight") and 1969's The Band.
These critically praised albums helped conceive country rock as something more than a genre,
but rather as a celebration of "Americana."

As such, throughout their career they would repopularize traditional American musical forms during the psychedelic era.
The Band dissolved in 1976 but reformed in 1983 without founding guitarist and main songwriter Robbie Robertson.

Although always more popular with music journalists and fellow musicians than the general public,
The Band has remained an admired and influential group.
They have been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

_ Source:Wikipedia-

The Last Waltz (1978)DVD
Actors: Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel, Robbie Robertson
Director: Martin Scorsese
• Number of discs: 1
• DVD Release Date: May 7, 2002
• Run Time: 117 minutes

The Last Waltz [BOX SET]Audio CD-4 Disc

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