Moms Music- Highway 61 Revisited

I probably never need an excuse to write about Bob Dylan but since we are talking #momsmusic well it was Mom introduced me to Dylan via Highway 61 Revisited I feel like there are a few things I should share here. As a kid listening to music, Dylan was already a legend, but like The RollingStones, the Eighties weren’t his best years. “Political World” got video play and I enjoyed it. His album with the Dead was panned but got a lot of attention. His greatest moment of the time frame may well have been his involvement with the Traveling Wilburys. But of course some of this came a bit later. In 1986 when MTV away making a big deal about Bob Dylan touring with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, there was no doubt in my mind who the biggest star was, and that’s the guy who ruled the land the previous year with “Don’t Come Around Here No More” H61R is and was great. There’s always enough room in Dylan’s discography to discover new stuff, and as far as “recent” discoveries, the Basement Tapes are something that really stand out. If I was forced to sit down and think and pick the Dylan album that I listen to most in recent years, it is probably “Bringing it all Back Home” I have one last story to share. In college, a roommate told me that you’re either a Neil Young person or a Bob Dylan person, and I was a Dylan person This is the kind of profound statement you make and ruminate about when you’re that age. It’s pure bunk of course. Not that it isn’t a good question, but I don’t think there is a ton of truth in it anymore. Also, I may have agreed then but I am undoubtedly sure I listen to more Neil Young now than I do Dylan.