Highway 61 Revisited
(36/100 Greatest Albums Ever)

The road that snaked from New Orleans through Duluth and on to the Canadian border was already mythological terrain. Elvis Presley grew up in a housing project on the Memphis stretch and Robert Johnson had conducted his most famous transaction there. Dylan would recreate Highway 61 in his own image, a spooky fairground of lost souls, freaks and Americana where Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot rumble and John The Baptist tortures at the behest of the Commander-in-Chief. A monumental record.