UNCUT

Bill Janovitz

BOB DYLAN

Highway 61 Revisited COLUMBIA, 1965

My grandparents had these neighbours who were getting rid of a ton of records, which are still among some of my most cherished albums. On the same day, I got by the Stones, by The Beach Boys, and some others. But of those, has just been a constant for me. You can imagine being seven or eight years old and trying to make sense of it… It was raw, kinda sloppy even, but that voice singing those words blew my mind open. It was forbidding and inscrutable, but also compelling. He’s singing about Rimbaud, which opened my mind to literature and

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from UNCUT

UNCUT11 min read
AtoZ
BAD BRAINS/ORG 8/10 Landmark punk-metal fourth from DC Rastas Bad Brains pioneered hardcore with the pummelling speed and precision of 1980’s “Pay To Cum”, splintered its fundamentalism with their equal faith in reggae, and helped lead black rock’s r
UNCUT1 min read
The Old New South
The first album with Jason Isbell features his title track, a wrenching blood feud narrative that’s one of his greatest songs; Hood’s gentle “My Sweet Annette,” a tale of romantic betrayal set in the ’30s, is likewise among his best. The Isbell golde
UNCUT1 min read
Missed An Issue?
ORDER TODAY! COVER STORY Joni Mitchell INSIDE Kraftwerk • Stevie Nicks • John Cale • Steve Albini • Grateful Dead COVER STORY David Gilmour INSIDE Slowdive • Mark Knopfler • Royal Trux • T Bone Burnett • Mdou Moctar COVER STORY David Bowie INSIDE The

Related Books & Audiobooks