Sixty-one years ago today, Bob Dylan released a song that helped him become an internationally recognized star.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited debuts at No. 31 on the U.K.'s ...

Now that we’re 60 years down the line from its release, we hail Highway 61 Revisited as a landmark album in the history of popular music. Released in August 1965, the album solidified Bob Dylan’s ...

In 1965, Bob Dylan left his acoustic folk roots in the dust with the release of the blues-based "Highway 61 Revisited." Written by Dylan, the title track from the 1965 Billboard Top 3 album of the ...

Last night, Bob Dylan reminded his fans that he still has plenty of songs in his repertoire worth revisiting. On Tuesday evening, the Duluth-born bard continued his ongoing pattern of returning to ...

From 22,000 miles high, a satellite dropped an uncanny merging of highway and music into my path. XM Radio played the comedic ACME siren whistle that rose, then fell smooth as silk. The second that ...

The song was penned by a folk-rock icon.

Highway 61 Revisited Brothers Eddie and Frank Thomas spent three years traveling Highway 61 between Memphis and New Orleans studying the history of the music created along that stretch of road. Then ...