Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited”

The Mike Bloomfield and Johnny Winter Takes of the Dylan Classic

The 1965 promotional photo issued to promote Highway 61 Revisited.

“Lord, that 61 Highway, the longest road I know,” sang bluesman Mississippi Fred McDowell. “She run on to New Orleans, and down to the Gulf of Mexico.”

The most famous road in blues lore, Highway 61 was built during the 1920s and 1930s. From New Orleans, it veers northwest into Mississippi…