🎙️CWT608: 'Highway 61 Revisited': Dylan's Song, America, and the Sound of Collapse

DEC 28, 202520 MIN
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🎙️CWT608: 'Highway 61 Revisited': Dylan's Song, America, and the Sound of Collapse

DEC 28, 202520 MIN

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<p>Released in 1965 as the title track of Dylan’s album Highway 61 Revisited, the song stands as one of the clearest statements of his break from acoustic folk into electric blues-rock. This wasn’t a gentle evolution. It was a confrontation — with tradition, with authority, and with the idea that music should behave itself.</p>