Hello, my name is Ben Burrell and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that takes an in-death look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record.

Nice one if you have left a review of the podcast in the last week. I asked you to slip in a Dylan reference into your review or some Dylan lyrics.

Some of them have been mercilessly shoehorned in. Really bad. But some of them have

been good. Hi to Sweet Pretty Thing on the Apple Podcast app in Australia who makes a nice

reference to last thoughts on Woody Guthrie. That was great. This is not so great. Hi to George

who says, like like a Rolling Stone, this podcast is brilliant. I mean, that's not good,

is it? This was slightly better. You have a lot of nerve to call yourself a Dylan fan if you've

not listened to this podcast, says Arnie. That's better, a little reference to positively fourth

street. If you can leave a review, then please do it really helps out. And if you've supported

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then stay tuned to the end of this episode

because I will do some name checks for those people that have done just that.

Let's crack on, though, and have a look for the third time at this classic album.

Let's take a look at one of the best songs on the record and the recording process.

This is part number three on Highway 61 Revisited.

The sweet pretty things I've bet now, of course, the city fathers they're trying to endorse

the reincarnation of Paul Revere's horse, but the town has no need to be nervous.

This was a big album for Bob in terms of the Sonics, possibly the

biggest album of his career sonically. He decided to move to a new sound and to get it wrong now

might spell the end of him. The stakes were high and the pressure to get it right must have been

enormous, although it certainly doesn't seem that way. All the reports suggest it was quite a straightforward recording process.

That amphetamine use might have been an anesthetic to the pressure,

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