Highway 51

The title song on Highway 61 Revisited (1965) – the album which includes Dylan’s signature song “Like a Rolling Stone” – includes a novel take on the Biblical story of Abraham, when God told him to kill his newborn, long-promised son Isaac.  (I had no idea what the title meant, really, until I moved to Mississippi and found that U.S. Highway 61 runs through the heart of the Delta Blues country.  The city of Brookhaven, where I first lived and worked, is located on U.S. Highway 51, and I also knew about a more obscure song by Bob Dylan called “Highway 51”).  

(August 2014)