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Dylans First Entirely Rock-Backed Record Marks Sea Change in Sound and Potential of Popular Music
Ranked #4 on Rolling Stones List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Widescreen Sonics: Brilliant Collision of Evocative Poetry, Swirling Roots-Based Soul, and Hard-Driving Blues Sounds Incredible on Mobile Fidelity Reissues
Album-Opening Anthem Like a Rolling Stone Challenging, Bold, RevolutionaryAnd Arguably the Best Rock Song Ever Recorded

The records title references the road that spans North Minnesota to the Mississippi Delta, and the formative blues, country, and roots sounds connected to its existence. The highway also lays claim to towering musical myths and deaths, many tied to the blues lexicon and narrative. All figure prominently on Bob Dylans Highway 61 Revisited, the 1965 landmark that overturned rules, upended preexisting limits, and changed everything in its path. Ranked the fourth-greatest album ever made by Rolling Stone, its reach, power, and content boggle the mind nearly five decades after its bonfire of cynicism, fury, indignation, and absurdity forever transformed rock, what it could mean, and what it could do. These reasonsand the bold musicianship, ace performances, inimitable production, and vast lyrical expansesare why the album means as much today as it did in the mid-1960s.
Mastered on Mobile Fidelitys world-renowned mastering system, these sonically restored 180g 45RPM 2LP and SACD versions of Highway 61 Revisited present the life-altering music in reference quality soundso much so that the records famous first lightning strike note is now indeed the snare shot that sounds like somebodyd kicked open the door to your mind, as described by Bruce Springsteen. Teeming with organic energy, palpable voltage, and countless textures, these reissues faithfully recreate the dimensions, vibes, and events associated with the six days Dylan and Co. spent at Columbias Studio A. Everything from the soundstages to dynamics, instrumental separation to balances, resonates with enormous might and insightful perspective. Accept no substitute.