Music
When Dylan got together with a polished group of studio musicians to record "Like A Rolling Stone," nothing went smoothly. They started by recording several takes of the song as a waltz, and had t...
Setting
"Highway 61, the main thoroughfare of the country blues, begins about where I came from," Dylan wrote in his autobiography. "I always felt like I'd started on it, always had been on it and could g...
Songwriting
"Old tennis shoes, vending machines, alligators that crawled through sewers, dueling pistols, the Staten Island Ferry and Trinity Church…rodeo queens and Mickey Mouse heads, castle turrets and Mr...
Title
"Like A Rolling Stone" owes a great deal to the traditions of folk, country, and blues that influenced Dylan before he went electric, and the name is a tribute.Though Bob Dylan followed folk histor...