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Highway 61 Revisited, Revisited ...07/01/2005 09:57:47 am

Here's an mp3 sample of Highway 61 Revisited (file here for a little while, may be unreliable) from the 6/24/05 show in Montclair, NJ (which I wrote about here). I just like it. It's a song that it seems to me Dylan has only gotten better at performing down through the years, and he clearly relishes it. He's having a lot of fun with the vocals on this outing, syncopating and sliding around mischievously. And almost 6 minutes into the performance, Dylan and the band do something rather unusual for them, to my mind at least: They take it down, allllll the wayyy downnnn, so much so that you'll think there's something wrong with the audio - Dylan's piano and the guitars trading barely audible riffs. Then it's all the way back up for the finish.

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.

 

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