May 26, 2015 Playlist

The Bob & Miles Birthday Show
Miles  Bob
"Highway 61 Revisited" by Bob Dylan (1965)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Bob Dylan  "Highway 61 Revisited"  1965 (USA)
Bob Dylan is one of the all time greats, and this is his all-time greatest record.  A folksinger from the Midwest who reinvented himself as a post-modern Woody Guthrie, Dylan blew everybody's minds when he electrified his sound and united the "pop" and "protest" movements and thus created "hippies" and "the sixties" (at least from a music listener's perspective!)  Bob's first album of 1965 was the first with electronic instruments and rock beats taking up an entire side, but Highway 61 not only doubled-down on his controversial approach, it took it to a level that even Bob himself was never again able to reach. The album begins with a suprising snare drum shot followed the an explosion of jingle-jangle which frames "Like A Rolling Stone", an amazing, powerful song that seems to speak volumes without ever making itself clear. This LP includes other era-defining gems which ride that same paradoxical line, including the notorious "Ballad of a Thin Man" with its musical question "something is happening but you don't know what it is, do you Mr. Jones?" Naturally, the song never spells out the thing that hapless Mr. Jones is not quite sure about (because after all, he is YOU!) 
(N) = New Release
 
Artist Song Album Year Country
Crosby Stills & NashMarrakesh ExpressCrosby Stills & Nash 1969
USA/UK
The Velvet UndergroundTrain Round The Bend (alternate mix)Loaded (Fully Loaded Edition) (bonus track on CD reissue)rec. 1970, rel. 1997
USA
Terry Knight & The PackDimestore DebutanteReflections1967
USA
Picadilly LineVisions Of Johanna (Bob Dylan)The Huge World Of Emily Small1968
UK
 
 
Buffy Sainte-Marie The Uranium WarPower In The Blood (N)2015 (Gypsy Boy)Canada
Father John Misty Nothing Good Ever Happens At The Goddamn Thirsty CrowI Love You, Honeybear (N)2015 (Sub Pop)USA
Calexico When The Angels PlayedEdge Of The Sun (N)2015 (Anti)USA
Bonnie "Prince" BillyGoing To Acapulco (Bob Dylan)B-side CD single2007
USA
   
 
Miles Davis
 		MoveThe Complete Birth Of The Cool rec. 1949
USA
Enoch Light & The Brass MenagerieBlowin' In The Wind (Bob Dylan)Enoch Light & The Brass Menagerie1969
USA
Miles Davis (with John Coltrane)
 		'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk)'Round About Midnight 1957
USA
   
 
Bob DylanIt Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To CryHighway 61 Revisited
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK 		1965
USA
Karen O & The Million Dollar BashersHighway 61 Revisited (Bob Dylan)I'm Not There (original soundtrack) 2007
USA
Bob Dylan (with The Band)Can You Please Crawl Out Your WindowA-side 7" single 1965
USA
Bob DylanJust Like Tom Thumb's BluesHighway 61 Revisited
 CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK 		1965
USA
Buzzy LinhartTalk About A Morning (R)Music1970
USA
   
 
Bob Dylan (with most of The Band)Like A Rolling Stone (live)Live 1966 (The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert) rec. 1966
USA
Bob Dylan & The Grateful DeadQueen Jane Approximately (live)Dylan & The Dead rec. 1986
USA
Jeff Beck GroupTonight I'll Be Staying Here With You (Bob Dylan)Jeff Beck Group 1972
UK
Gene ClarkTears Of Rage (Bob Dylan/The Band)White Light 1971
USA
Thunderclap NewmanOpen The Door Homer (Bob Dylan)Hollywood Dream 1969
UK
 
  
The BandMystery Train (Junior Parker/Elvis Presley)Moondog Matinee 1973
Canada/USA
Neil Young & The International HarvestersSouthern Pacific (live)A Treasure rec. 1984, rel. 2011
Canada/USA
The Byrds(See The Sky) About To Rain (Neil Young)The Byrds 1973
USA
Joni MitchellJust Like This TrainCourt & Spark 1974
Canada
 
  
Miles DavisWili (Parts 1 & 2) (live)Dark Magus: Live At Carnegie Hallrec. 1974
USA
 
  
Trio Mei Li De Dao I Want You (Bob Dylan)
 		From Another World: A Tribute To Bob Dylan (various artists)rel. 2013
Taiwan
      
   
   
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