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Title: Highway 61 Revisited - What songs did Mike Bloomfield play on?
Post by: Daniel S. on January 02, 2009, 04:38:07 PM

Besides "Tombstone Blues", which is the song where Mike Bloomfield is most prominently featured, what other songs on Highway 61 Revisited did Bloomfield play on?

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Title: Re: Highway 61 Revisited - What songs did Mike Bloomfield play on?
Post by: 8o8o on January 03, 2009, 04:49:10 AM
As far as I know he's on every song, however there have been some debates whether he's on "Desolation Row" or not. Some sources say he is (Greil Marcus, Glen Dundas), others say he is not (Al Kooper, who claims it's Charley McCoy).

Maybe McCoy was brought in to do some overdubs later, and wasn't at the actual recording session initially.

Bloomfield can also be heard on the "Highway 61" era outtakes "Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence" and "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" as well as on "Positively 4th Street".