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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde (1966)

In 1965 it would be a crucial year for Bob Dylan as he would electrify his sound after admiring the expansive possibilities of rock and pop music in folk with the Byrds' version of his "Mr. Tambourine man" and for the superb adaptation of the Animals with the theme "House of the rising sun", being cruelly rejected by the most staunch fans of folk, who booed him when he appeared at the Newport Folk Festival with his electric guitar and the group The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Folk-rock was definitely adopted by Dylan on his album "Bringing it all back home", a key piece of his discography with songs impregnated with imagery and eclectic themes with surreal connotations in pieces like "Subterranean Homesick blues", "Maggie 'farm "," She belongs to me "," Love minus zero "," Bob Dylan's 115th dream "," Gates of Eden "," It's alright, ma, I'm only bleeding "," It's all over now, baby blue " or "Mr. Tambourine man" herself.
The transition to the electric field and embrace of more blues, R&B and rock strokes fully materialized in two later and essential works of his extensive career: "Highway 61 revisited" (1965) and "Blonde on blonde" (1966), two works teachers who extended their lyrical and musical talent with classics like "Like a Rolling Stone" (their most commercially successful single, reaching number 2), "Rainy day women # 12 & 35", "Visions of Johanna" , "I want you" or "Just like a woman", songs (with the single "Positively 4th Street") in which people like Michael Bloomfield, Harvey Brooks, Al Kooper and the members of The Band collaborated, a Canadian formation known until that moment as The Hawks (at that time they were the support band of Ronnie Hawkins) that would become his live support group and with whom he would tour the United Kingdom in 1966, being accused of being a traitor again to the folk cause for his British followers.

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