A long drive home from Yarmouth in the company of a legend

Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

My list changes from day to day, but today this is my favourite. Like A Rolling Stone is as relevant now as ever and Ballad of a Thin Man has the most incredible words, although I’ve listened to it a thousand times and still don’t know what it means. I’d never really heard of Dylan until a cousin of mine who’s a couple of years older than me came to stay one summer and brought a bunch of records with him. To the unaccustomed ear it was a bit of a shock but by the time he went away he’d introduced me to Bob Dylan and French cigarettes, which was quite good training.

Blood on the Tracks (1975)