The first album to make the list, Highway 61 Revisited marks the most productive period for Dylan in the 60s. Tiring of his solo guitar Dylan employs a band on a full album for the first time. Previous album 'Bringing It All Back Home' had carried one side of electric music but 'Highway 61 Revisited' was entirely electric, from the opening shots of 'Like A Rolling Stone' to the final bars of epic 'Desolation Row', the album stands as a masterpiece of popular music.
'Ballad of A Thin Man' was Dylan's vicious swipe at the conformist, blinkered America that Dylan despised - "Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is. do you Mr Jones?"
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