Editing Highway 61 Revisited (section)

===Background===
In May 1965, Dylan returned from his tour of England feeling exhausted and dissatisfied with his material. He told journalist [[Nat Hentoff]]: "I was going to quit singing. I was very drained" and added, "[i]t's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you."<ref name=hentoff>Hentoff, Nat. ''Playboy'', March 1966, reprinted in {{harvnb|Cott|2006|p=97}}</ref>

As a consequence of his dissatisfaction, Dylan wrote 20 pages of [[Song structure (popular music)#Verse|verse]] he later described as a "long piece of vomit".<ref name=Marcus70>Dylan interviewed by Marvin Bronstein, CBC, Montreal, February 20, 1966. Quoted by {{harvnb|Marcus|2005 (1)|p=70}}</ref> He reduced this to a song with four verses and a [[Refrain|chorus]]—"Like a Rolling Stone".<ref>{{harvnb|Shelton|1986|pp=319–320}}</ref> He told Hentoff that writing and recording the song washed away his dissatisfaction, and restored his enthusiasm for creating music.<ref name=hentoff/> Describing the experience to [[Robert Hilburn]] in 2004, nearly 40 years later, Dylan said: "It's like a ghost is writing a song like that&nbsp;... You don't know what it means except the ghost picked me to write the song."<ref>Hilburn, Robert. ''Guitar World Acoustic'', February 2006, quoted in {{harvnb|Polizzotti|2006|pp=32–33}}</ref>

''Highway 61 Revisited'' was recorded in two blocks of recording sessions that took place in Columbia's Studio A, located on Seventh Avenue in [[Midtown Manhattan]].<ref>{{harvnb|Polizzotti|2006|p=45}}</ref> The first block, June 15 and 16, was produced by [[Tom Wilson (producer)|Tom Wilson]] and resulted in the single "Like a Rolling Stone".<ref>{{harvnb|Heylin|1996|pp=75–77}}</ref> On July 25, Dylan performed his [[Electric Dylan controversy|controversial electric set at the Newport Folk Festival]], where some of the crowd booed his performance.<ref>{{harvnb|Heylin|1996|pp=77–78}}</ref> Four days after Newport, Dylan returned to the recording studio. From July 29 to August 4, he and his band completed recording ''Highway 61 Revisited'', but under the supervision of a new producer, [[Bob Johnston]].<ref>{{harvnb|Heylin|1996|pp=78–80}}</ref>