Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, was in the process of setting up a gruelling concert schedule that would keep Dylan on the road for the next nine months, touring the USA, Australia, and Europe. After backing him at concerts in late August and early September, Kooper informed Dylan he did not wish to continue touring with him. Bloomfield chose not to tour with Dylan, preferring to remain with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Guitarist Mike Bloomfield and keyboard player Al Kooper had backed Dylan, both on his new album and at Dylan's controversial electric debut at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Recording sessions Background Īfter the release of the Highway 61 Revisited in August 1965, Dylan set about hiring a touring band.
1.4.1 Controversy over Nashville recording dates. 1.4 Second recording sessions in Nashville. 2.4.1 Controversy over Nashville recording dates. 2.4 Second recording sessions in Nashville. Two further songs, " Just Like a Woman" and " Visions of Johanna", have been described as among Dylan's greatest compositions and were featured in Rolling Stone 's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. Blonde on Blonde spawned two singles that were top twenty hits in the USA: " Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and " I Want You". The album peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 chart in the USA, where it eventually went double-platinum, and reached No. It was one of the first double albums in rock music. Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album's songs have been described as operating on a grand scale musically, while featuring lyrics one critic called "a unique blend of the visionary and the colloquial". Critics often rank Blonde on Blonde as one of the greatest albums of all time. These sessions, augmented by some of Nashville's top session musicians, were more fruitful, and in February and March all the remaining songs for the album were recorded.īlonde on Blonde completed the trilogy of rock albums that Dylan recorded in 19, starting with Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. At producer Bob Johnston's suggestion, Dylan, keyboardist Al Kooper, and guitarist Robbie Robertson moved to the CBS studios in Nashville, Tennessee. Though sessions continued until January 1966, they yielded only one track that made it onto the final album-" One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)". Recording sessions began in New York in October 1965 with numerous backing musicians, including members of Dylan's live backing band, The Hawks. Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on on Columbia Records.
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