Highway 61 Revisited is where Dylan's amphetamine visions met Chicago blues muscle and accidentally created modern rock poetry. Mike Bloomfield's stinging guitar and Al Kooper's wonky organ anchor surrealist epics like Like a Rolling Stone and Ballad of a Thin Man, while the acoustic Desolation Row closes with eleven minutes of apocalyptic carnival.

The title track transforms America's blues highway into a cosmic joke about sacrifice and commerce. Dylan wasn't just going electric, he was rewiring how words could work in popular music, making abstraction feel urgent and personal.