Hard not to put that at the top. Right around 12:00, there's some "flying spiccato" which is that rapid staccato you hear from the bowed bass. It's done by attacking the string rapidly near the tip of the bow (where your hand has less down pressure due to it being remote from the tip). You push the upbow (meaning away from you) and the bow ends up bouncing rapidly up and down on the string. Cool stuff and difficult to master. Then again, a fair chunk of the 'Trane at the Village Vanguard has both Workman and Garrison and we both know that particular box is pretty good.
If you’re going to be legit intolerable you have to get the vocabulary locked in. The MoFi of that one sounds so good you can smell his cigarettes. That and a first press mono are the ones that are spendy.
Been streaming this for awhile. This is great stuff. Quite a mix. Never thought I'd see Procol Harum on a country comp but it works.
My copies of Highway 61 on vinyl are serviceable (a Sundazed mono reissue from late aughts and a stereo reissue from the 80s), but I probably should have splurged for the MoFi. I have the MoFi Blood on the Tracks, Desire, and Basement Tapes and they sound pretty fantastic.
I have a Dutch pressing of this one entitled Subterranean Homesick Blues (on CBS records) that sounds pretty good. Everything else is identical to the US version.
I have a UK Simply Vinyl which, if it's supposed to be an audiophile label, they dropped the ball on this one. It also has a lot of Spinclean resistant surface noise on side 2. But the noise seems to go away when Bobby D. starts doing his thing.
The best digital version I've heard is the gold disc that Steve did for DCC, and they can actually be had pretty cheaply. https://www.discogs.com/Bob-Dylan-Highway-61-Revisited/release/7320711
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