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Highway 61 (other)
__NOTOC__ Highway 61 may refer to: * '' Highway 61 Revisited'', 1965 album by Bob Dylan ** "Highway 61 Revisited" (song), the title track from the album * ''Highway 61'' (film), 1991 film by Bruce McDonald ** ''Highway 61'' (soundtrack), the accompanying album soundtrack to Bruce McDonald's film * Highway 61 Motorcycle Club, an outlaw motorcycle club founded in New Zealand * US Route 61, also known as "The Blues Highway", from which the song, album and film are based * Ontario Highway 61 King's Highway 61, commonly referred to as Highway 61 and historically known as the Scott Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The route connects the Pigeon River Bridge, where it crosses into the U ... is a provincially maintained highway in Ontario which was featured in the 1991 film "Highway 61" See also * List of highways numbered 61 * Route 61 (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 61 Revisited
''Highway 61 Revisited'' is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965, by Columbia Records. Having until then recorded mostly acoustic music, Dylan used rock musicians as his backing band on every track of the album, except for the closing track, the 11-minute ballad "Desolation Row". Critics have focused on the innovative way Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of contemporary America. Author Michael Gray has argued that, in an important sense, the 1960s "started" with this album. Leading with the hit song "Like a Rolling Stone", the album features songs that Dylan has continued to perform live over his long career, including "Ballad of a Thin Man" and the title track. He named the album after the major American highway which connected his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota, to southern cities famed for their musical heritage, includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 61 Revisited (song)
"Highway 61 Revisited" is the title track of Bob Dylan's 1965 album '' Highway 61 Revisited''. It was also released as the B-side to the single " Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" later the same year. In 2004, '' Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked the song as number 364 in their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Background Highway 61 runs from Duluth, Minnesota, where Bob Dylan grew up in the 1940s and 1950s down to New Orleans, Louisiana. It was a major transit route out of the Deep South particularly for African Americans traveling north to Chicago, St Louis and Memphis, following the Mississippi River valley for most of its . Lyrics The song has five stanzas. In each stanza, someone describes an unusual problem that is ultimately resolved on Highway 61. In Verse 1, God tells Abraham to " kill me a son". God wants the killing done on Highway 61. This stanza refers to Genesis 22, in which God commands Abraham to kill one of his two sons, Isaac. Abram, the original n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 61 (film)
''Highway 61'' is a 1991 Canadian film directed by Bruce McDonald. The film is an unofficial sequel to his 1989 film ''Roadkill''; although focusing on different characters, it centres on a road trip beginning in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where the road trip depicted in the earlier film ended. Plot The film stars Don McKellar as Pokey Jones, an orphaned barber in a small town near Thunder Bay, who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. One morning, Jones discovers a frozen corpse (Steve Fall) in his backyard, and soon meets Jackie Bangs (Valerie Buhagiar), a tough and mysterious roadie who claims the dead man is her brother. Jackie's real intention is to use the body, a vagrant unknown to anyone in town, to smuggle stolen drugs into the United States. She convinces Pokey to use his parents' car, which has not been driven in decades, to drive her to New Orleans to bury her brother. So Jackie and Pokey set out along Highway 61, coffin strapped to the top of the car, and follow Bob Dyl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 61 (soundtrack)
''Highway 61'' is a 1991 Canadian film directed by Bruce McDonald. The film is an unofficial sequel to his 1989 film ''Roadkill''; although focusing on different characters, it centres on a road trip beginning in Thunder Bay, Ontario, where the road trip depicted in the earlier film ended. Plot The film stars Don McKellar as Pokey Jones, an orphaned barber in a small town near Thunder Bay, who dreams of becoming a jazz musician. One morning, Jones discovers a frozen corpse (Steve Fall) in his backyard, and soon meets Jackie Bangs (Valerie Buhagiar), a tough and mysterious roadie who claims the dead man is her brother. Jackie's real intention is to use the body, a vagrant unknown to anyone in town, to smuggle stolen drugs into the United States. She convinces Pokey to use his parents' car, which has not been driven in decades, to drive her to New Orleans to bury her brother. So Jackie and Pokey set out along Highway 61, coffin strapped to the top of the car, and follow B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Highway 61 Motorcycle Club
The Highway 61 Motorcycle Club is an outlaw motorcycle club based in New Zealand and also operating in Australia. The Committee on Gangs report of 1981 (known as the Comber Report) said they were one of the two largest of the 20 outlaw motorcycle gangs in New Zealand. In the 1990s they were the largest in the country. They were still the largest in 2010, even though their membership numbers had declined. As of 2019 they were considered one of the ten main gangs (including motorcycle gangs and ethnically based gangs) in the country. Their membership is largely people of Māori and Pacific Island ethnicities. Their colours are black and gold. History The Highway 61 mc was formed in Auckland in 1967 or 1968, and have since expanded across New Zealand and Australia. The Highway 61 patch consists of a skeleton holding onto ape hangers (handlebars) with the road, or highway, seen below the skull. In 1997, Highway 61 members were convicted of murdering a member of the New Zealand Nom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Route 61
U.S. Route 61 or U.S. Highway 61 (U.S. 61) is a major United States highway that extends between New Orleans, Louisiana and the city of Wyoming, Minnesota. The highway generally follows the course of the Mississippi River and is designated the Great River Road for much of its route. As of 2004, the highway's northern terminus in Wyoming, Minnesota, is at an intersection with Interstate 35 (I-35). Until 1991, the highway extended north on what is now Minnesota State Highway 61 (MN 61) through Duluth to the Canada–U.S. border near Grand Portage. Its southern terminus in New Orleans is at an intersection with U.S. Route 90 (US 90). The route was an important south–north connection in the days before the interstate highway system. The highway is often called the Blues Highway because of its long history in blues music; Part of the route lies on the Mississippi Blues Trail and is denoted by markers in Vicksburg and Tunica. It is also the subject of numerous m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 61
King's Highway 61, commonly referred to as Highway 61 and historically known as the Scott Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. The route connects the Pigeon River Bridge, where it crosses into the United States and becomes Minnesota State Highway 61, with a junction at Highway 11, Highway 17 and the Harbour Expressway in Thunder Bay. The highway forms part of the Lake Superior Circle Tour. Highway 61 was added to the highway system on October 6, 1937, following the amalgamation of the Department of Northern Development into the Department of Highways. Prior to that it was known as the Scott Highway. The bridge over the Pigeon River was originally known as The Outlaw, as it was constructed without formal approval of the Canadian or American governments. Route description Crossing the American border, the Pigeon River Bridge is west of the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge and east of the Fort F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Highways Numbered 61
The following highways are numbered 61: International * Asian Highway 61 * European route E61 Canada * Alberta Highway 61 * Newfoundland and Labrador Route 61 * Ontario Highway 61 India * National Highway 61 (India) Korea, South * National Route 61 Philippines * N61 highway (Philippines) Poland * Expressway S61 * National road 61 United Kingdom * British A61 * British M61 United States * Interstate 61 (proposed) * U.S. Route 61 * Alabama State Route 61 * Arizona State Route 61 * California State Route 61 * Colorado State Highway 61 * Connecticut Route 61 * Florida State Road 61 ** Florida State Road 61A ** County Road 61 (Wakulla County, Florida) * Georgia State Route 61 * Hawaii Route 61 * Idaho State Highway 61 * Illinois Route 61 * Indiana State Road 61 * K-61 (Kansas highway) * Kentucky Route 61 * Louisiana State Route 61 (former) * Maryland Route 61 * M-61 (Michigan highway) * Minnesota State Highway 61 ** County Road 61 (Hennepin County, Minnesota) ** County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
