| "From a Buick 6" | ||||
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 US single picture sleeve | ||||
| Single byBob Dylan | ||||
| from the albumHighway 61 Revisited | ||||
| A-side | "Positively 4th Street" | |||
| Released | September 7, 1965 (1965-09-07) | |||
| Recorded | July 30, 1965 | |||
| Studio | Columbia, New York City | |||
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| Length | 3:19 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter | Bob Dylan | |||
| Producer | Bob Johnston | |||
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"From a Buick 6" is a song byBob Dylan from his albumHighway 61 Revisited, which was also released as a single on theB-side of "Positively 4th Street". It was recorded on July 30, 1965.[3]
The song is a raucous blues song played recklessly by a band that includedAl Kooper on organ andMike Bloomfield on guitar.[4] The guitar part is patterned after olderblues riffs byRobert Johnson,Charlie Patton andBig Joe Williams.[5] It also features a backbeat from drummerBobby Gregg, abass line fromHarvey Brooks, and a soaringharmonica break.[4][6] The song starts with asnare shot that is similar to the opening song ofHighway 61 Revisited, "Like a Rolling Stone".[3][6] It is essentially a 12-bar blues pattern, played withpower chords, and is notable for Brooks' almost indiscernible substitution of an F in the tenth bar of all but the first verses, while the guitar and organ play the G-chord.
The song is partially based onSleepy John Estes' 1930 song "Milk Cow Blues", even taking a few lyrics from the older song, but its approach is more similar toThe Kinks' version of aKokomo Arnold song that was also called "Milk Cow Blues".[4]
Cash Box described it as a "rollicking, fast-movingblues-drenched folk rocker."[1]
