Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde (1966/2013) [SACD]

Blonde on Blonde is American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan’s seventh studio album, released in June 1966 by Columbia Records. It was produced by Bob Johnston, who had also recorded Dylan’s previous album, the highly successful Highway 61 Revisited. Initial work on the album went slowly, and little progress was made. Dylan and his backing band, made up of members of The Hawks, attended five recording sessions in New York from October 1965 to January 1966. However, only one recording from these sessions would make it onto the final album—”One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)”. At Johnston’s suggestion, Dylan and two of his backing musicians moved to the CBS recording studios in Nashville, Tennessee. These sessions, augmented by some of Nashville’s top session musicians, were much more productive, and the album was successfully completed in March 1966.
Blonde on Blonde is often considered to be the first significant double album in rock music. It is notable for injecting Dylan’s brand of blues rock with a more eclectic sound and even more surreal lyrics. The album peaked at #9 on Billboard’s Pop Albums chart in the US, eventually going double-platinum, while it reached #3 in the UK. It is ranked as the ninth greatest album of all time by both VH1 and Rolling Ston