The drum shot that changed the world

Fifty years ago today, Bob Dylan released the single, “Like a Rolling Stone.” A month later, the album Highway 61 Revisited was released. Here are my thoughts on that important album — one of the earliest punk records, as far as I am concerned — in a piece I wrote several years ago for Pop Matters.

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Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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