MOJO Celebrates Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde

50 years since the album’s inception, MOJO magazine devotes 19 pages to Blonde On Blonde, the masterpiece that marked the apogee of Bob Dylan’s rock’n’roll revolution.

In this month’s issue – on sale in the UK from Tuesday, May 24 – an exclusive, myth-busting memoir by Blonde On Blonde’s organist and MD Al Kooper delivers the nitty-gritty of album’s February 1966 creation in Nashville, while historian and Bob-o-phile Sean Wilentz takes apart the aborted New York sessions and Greil Marcus revels in the wonders of One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later).

Plus! Sylvie Simmons profiles Blonde On Blonde super-producer Bob Johnston; Bob Mehr tracks down Charlie McCoy and Wayne Moss, two of the Nashville session musicians who authored the album’s unique sound and feel; and much, much more.

BLONDE ON BLONDE REVISITED

This month’s free CD is Blonde On Blonde Revisited, a specially commissioned start-to-finish cover of Dylan’s 1966 landmark, with interpretations by handpicked contemporary stars including Phosphorescent, Ryley Walker and more.

An extremely Limited Edition package, with the album on double ‘blonde’ vinyl, a Dylan art poster, and an exclusive magazine cover is also available to purchase online WHILE STOCKS LAST.

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Full tracklisting and participating artists

1 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 – Malcolm Middleton 2 Pledging My Time – My Darling Clementine 3 Visions Of Johanna – Steve Gunn 4 One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) – Chip Taylor 5 I Want You – Phosphorescent 6 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again – Promised Land Sound 7 Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat – Michael Chapman 8 Just Like A Woman – Peter Bruntnell 9 Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine – Thomas Cohen 10 Temporary Like Achilles – Kevin Morby 11 Absolutely Sweet Marie – Marissa Nadler 12 4th Time Around – Ryley Walker 13 Obviously Five Believers – Night Beats 14 Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands – Jim O'Rourke

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE

And if that weren’t enough, also in this issue you’ll find: the definitive 10-page celebration of the music of Prince; the wild and tragic tale of The Associates; Sean Lennon in his own right; 122 Reviews – including Radiohead, Laura Mvula, Paul Simon and The Beach Boys; plus (run that by me again?) Fat White Family meet Lady Gaga…

For the full contents of the new MOJO magazine GO HERE

PHOTO: Jerry Schatzberg