Editing Highway 61 Revisited (section)

==== "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" ====
"[[Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues]]" has six verses and no chorus.<ref name=williamsthumb>{{harvnb|Williams|1990|pp=160, 167}}</ref> The lyrics describe a nightmarish experience in [[Ciudad Juárez|Juarez]], Mexico, where, in Shelton's words, "our anti-hero stumbles amid sickness, despair, whores and saints."<ref name=sheltonthumb/> He battles with corrupt authorities, alcohol and drugs before resolving to return to New York City.<ref name=sheltonthumb>{{harvnb|Shelton|1986|p=282}}</ref><ref name=marquseethumb>{{harvnb|Marqusee|2005|p=204}}</ref><ref name=allmusicthumb>{{harvnb|Janovitz (2)}}</ref> In this song, critics have heard literary references to [[Malcolm Lowry]]'s ''[[Under the Volcano]]'', [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s "[[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]]" and [[Jack Kerouac]]'s ''[[Desolation Angels (novel)|Desolation Angels]]''.<ref name=sheltonthumb/><ref name=irwinthumb>{{harvnb|Irwin|2008|pp=165–170}}</ref><ref name=keysthumb>{{harvnb|Trager|2004|pp=348–350}}</ref> The backing musicians, Bobby Gregg on drums, Mike Bloomfield on electric guitar, and two pianists, Paul Griffin on [[tack piano]] and Al Kooper on [[Hohner Pianet]], produce a mood that, for Gill, perfectly complements the "enervated tone" of the lyrics.<ref name=Polizzotti145/><ref name=Gill88>{{harvnb|Gill|1998|p=88}}</ref> Heylin notes that Dylan took great care—sixteen takes—to get the effect he was after, with lyrics that subtly "[skirt] the edge of reason".<ref name="Heylin 2009 259"/>