Here’s the summary:

The record grabs your attention even before the wrap comes off the sleeve. It’s in the gaze. No one else was making that kind of immediate challenge from an album cover. Even Dylan, for whom the outer photo is as much a performance as the music inside – from the smug come-on of his 1962 debut to the quizzical stare of Bringing It All Back Home – was pushing something new. The look he gives almost defies you to buy the disc, to put it on the turntable.

Between the fitfully brilliant Bringing It All Back Home and the sprawling masterwork that is Blonde on Blonde, Highway 61 Revisited stands as the defining moment in both Dylan’s career and the musical evolution of the mid 1960s. But beyond its place in history, Highway 61 works because of its enduring emotional appeal. Few songwriters before Dylan or since have combined so effectively the intensely personal with the spectacularly universal.

In this incisive book, Marl Polizzotti shines a critical light on these remarkable songs and shows us the timeless qualities that make them – and the album as a whole – so affecting.

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