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Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited (33 1/3) | 
| Author: Mark Polizzotti
Publisher: Continuum
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 131213
Media: Paperback
Pages: 161
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 4.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 0826417752
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.42164092
EAN: 9780826417756
ASIN: 0826417752
Publication Date: September 2006
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Between the fitfully brilliant Bringing It All Back Home and the sprawling masterwork that is Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited stands as the defining moment in both Dylan s career and the musical evolution of the mid-1960s. But beyond its place in history, Highway 61 works because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal. In this incisive book, Mark Polizzotti shines a critical light on these remarkable songs and shows us the timeless qualities that make them and the album as a whole so affecting.
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Everything the 33 1/3 books should be February 4, 2009
Erik Ketzan (Orbis Tertius)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have read a handful of the 33 1/3 line of books, each devoted to a landmark album, and Polizzotti's may be the best.
For starters, it's well-researched, adds original research by Polizzotti himself-- including interviews with the Highway 61 session musicians-- and seeks to settle any mysteries or contradictions extant in previous sources (like who played second guitar on Desolation Row). This is unsurprising, as Polizzotti has proven himself a rigorous scholar in such works as Revolution of the Mind, Revised Edition: The Life of Andre Breton, which was clearly assembled from a mountain of primary sources and original research (and done in French, no less!).
But in addition to solid research, Polizzotti has written an intensely personal book on his history with and interpretation of Highway 61. He walks a fine line, never letting his obviously large vocabulary lead him too far into questionable interpretive territory. His interpretations are convincing, or at least always well-reasoned and explained. When it's impossible or difficult to say what Dylan means by a certain lyric or song (which, as Dylan fans know, is pretty much all the time), Polizzotti has no problem admitting it. He does not force or stretch his interpretations over Dylan's many enigmas.
And this, I believe, is what makes this the perfect 33 1/3 book. If Polizzotti were writing a traditional biographical or journalistic account of Highway 61's creation, his personal descriptions and interpretations would intrude on the narrative. But here, they are not only welcome but epitomize the spirit of the 33 1/3 line. An excellent piece of Dylan scholarship and a fine read for anyone seeking to decode Highway 61 (as far as such a task is possible).
A Magnificent Achievement June 26, 2008
Charles Kaiser (New York, New York USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the best book ever written about Bob Dylan, and one of the best books I've ever read. Polizzotti writes beautifully; he also knows more and understands more than any other Dylanologist I know.
Charles Kaiser
Best of the series March 23, 2008
L. Shenk
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the best of the 331/3 series - I'm a dylan freak who's read all the books, yet this has new information (from interviews with Bob Johnston, Al Kooper and others) and insights galore into what was going on in dylan's private and public life and how that found it's way into the lyrics and music of Highway 61. I was sorry to reach the end and wish Mark would write a similar volume on Blonde on Blonde.
 "Highway 61 in NYC" March 23, 2007
Bob Chorba (Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States)
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
Good read. This was the type of book I expected when I bought "A Season in Hell: THe making of 'Exile on Main Street'". "Highway 61 ..." is really about the making of the album. Though the album does not compare, in my opinion with "Free Wheelin" and "The Times..", some of the songs are among my Favorite Dylan compositions". The book seems to answer the question as to which Fourth Street (Minneapolis or NYC) is referred to in "Positively ...". And I enjoyed the Al Kooper opinion that Desolation Row was the pre Guiliani 8th Avenue. Also didn't know that a Hanging of African Americans took place in Duluth, MN. Can't get too much further North than Duluth.
If you are a Dylan Fan,Read this Book.
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