WCSX Classic Cuts : Highway 61 Revisited
WCSX Classic Cuts
Bob Dylan: “Highway 61 Revisited”
The Hook: The bassist on the session remembers it being “explosive” and done in “one or two takes.”
Album: Highway 61 Revisited
Year: 1965
Writer: Bob Dylan
Stats: Not released as a single, but was the B-side of Dylan’s first post-Highway 61 Revisited release, “Can You Please Crawl Out My Window?”
Background: Bassist Harvey Brooks played on all but a couple of cuts on Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited. He recalls the session for its title track.
Bassist Harvey Brooks, who played on Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited album, on recording the title track. OC:…like flowing. :24
“We just started. I mean, Dylan would sit behind the baffle and he’d have, like, notes, you know, and he’d constantly be writing. And we were trying to figure out if he was writing the song we were doing as we were doing it or was it the next one. And we just started playing and I’d say it was probably one take or two takes. It was real explosive. There was no time to think about anything. We just had to grab on and Dylan was, like, flowing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1zyl1XtlNc
