HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED is the sixth studio album by Bob Dylan.
It was released on August 30, 1965, by Columbia Records.
Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing 11-minute ballad, "Desolation Row". Critics have focused on the innovative way in which Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of contemporary America.
Author Michael Gray has argued that in an important sense the 1960s "started" with this album.
Copyright M. Witmark &Sons, N.Y. All the songbooks below include 10 songs: the 9 album songs, 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, plus Positively 4th Street.
They all have piano arrangements by Jerry Sears and 30 pages, except for the Japanese Band score, copyright Special Rider Music, which has the 9 album songs only and 96 pages.
Thank you to Peter Oudejans for the scans from his collection and information.