"Once upon a time you dressed so fine/ You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?" Bob Dylan's landmark sixth album, "Highway 61 Revisited," was released sixty years ago, August 30, 1965. U.S. 61 is the highway from his hometown of Duluth down to "blues" cities like St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. Wikipedia: "Critics have focused on the innovative way Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural climate of contemporary America." The opening of the final song, "Desolation Row", refers to a lynching that happened in Duluth in 1920. https://www.chimesfreedom.com/2016/06/14/theyre-selling-postcards-of-the-hanging-the-real-lynching-in-dylans-desolation-row/
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