Johnny Winter -Highway 61 Revisited- from Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration
On October 16, 1992, an impressive and eclectic group of artists gathered at Madison Square Garden in New York City for the purpose of celebrating the music of Bob Dylan on the occasion of his 30th anniversary of recording with Columbia Records. Warmly dubbed the Bobfest by participant Neil Young, the show was broadcast around the world and featured a cast of musical notables performing carefully chosen and often surprising selections from the incomparable Dylan songbook. One of the many highlights of the show was a monumental display of blues power from the incomparable Johnny Winter, who threw down a furious deep-blues display of his guitar wizardry on “Highway 61 Revisited,” Winter’s first cut on his 1970 three-sided sophomore Columbia release, “Second Winter.” The guitar line-up of Winter, Steve Cropper, and G. E. Smith was on fire for the song, more than matching the spirit of the late Mike Bloomfield’s rifting on Dylan’s 1965 original.
One of the classics from one of the best.
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