From a Buick 6
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| Single by Bob Dylan | |||||||||||||||||||
| from the album Highway 61 Revisited | |||||||||||||||||||
| A-side | "Positively 4th Street" | ||||||||||||||||||
| Released | September 7, 1965 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | July 30, 1965 at Columbia Studios, New York | ||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Blues, garage rock[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 3:19 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Bob Dylan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Bob Johnston | ||||||||||||||||||
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"From a Buick 6" is a song by Bob Dylan from his album Highway 61 Revisited, which was also released as a single on the B-side of "Positively 4th Street." It was recorded on July 30, 1965.[2]
Musical style
The song is a raucous blues song played recklessly by a band that included Al Kooper on organ and Mike Bloomfield on guitar.[3] The guitar part is patterned after older blues riffs by Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton and Big Joe Williams.[4] It also features a backbeat from drummer Bobby Gregg, a bass line from Harvey Brooks, and a soaring harmonica break.[3][5] The song starts with a snare shot that is similar to the opening song of Highway 61 Revisited, "Like a Rolling Stone".[2][5] It is essentially a 12-bar blues pattern, played with power chords, and is notable for Bloomfield's almost indiscernible substitution of a F-chord in the tenth bar of all but the first verses, while the bass and organ play the G-chord. The song is partially based on Sleepy John Estes' 1930 song "Milk Cow Blues", even taking a few lyrics from the older song, but its approach is more similar to The Kinks' version of a Kokomo Arnold song that was also called "Milk Cow Blues".[3]
Cover versions
"From a Buick 6" has been covered by musicians such as Gary U.S. Bonds, Mitch Ryder, Treat Her Right, Mike Wilhelm, Alex Taylor and Johnny Winter.[6]
Legacy
The name of a 2002 novel by Stephen King, From a Buick 8 is adapted from the title of this song.[citation needed]
The track "From a Motel 6" on the 1993 Yo La Tengo album Painful is a nod to the title of this song.[7]
In an Apple presentation held in 2006, Steve Jobs noted that this was his favorite track of all time.[8]
References
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- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/from-a-motel-6-ep-mw0000112310
- ↑ http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/27063/steve-jobs-10-favorite-records-and-what-they-say-about-him/
