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Name = Blonde on Blonde | name=Jenny McCarthy

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Type = [[vinyl record|LP]] |

| month=October 1993

Artist = [[Bob Dylan]] |

| birthplace=[[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]

Cover = Music blonde on blonde.jpg |

| birthdate={{birth date and age|1972|11|1}}

Background = Orange |

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Released = May 16, 1966 (probable) |

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Recorded = [[October 5]], [[1965]] - [[March 10]], [[1966]] |

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Genre = [[Folk rock]] |

| preceded=[[Carrie Westcott]]

Length = varies with edition |

| succeeded=[[Julianna Young]]

Label = [[Columbia Records]] |

| pmoy-year=1994

Producer = [[Bob Johnston]]|

| pmoy-preceded=[[Anna Nicole Smith]]

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| pmoy-succeeded=[[Julie Lynn Cialini]]

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Last album = ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]''<br />([[1965]]) |

This album = '''''Blonde on Blonde'''''<br />([[1966]]) |

Next album = ''[[Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits]]''<br />([[1967]]) |

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'''Jennifer McCarthy''' (born [[November 1]], [[1972]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[model (person)|model]], [[comedian]], [[actor|actress]] and [[author]]. She first appeared in ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine in October 1993 and was named [[List of Playmates of the Year|Playmate of the Year]] in its June 1994 issue. She later began a career in television and film and has recently started writing books. She and fellow model and actress [[Pamela Anderson]] are generally considered the most recognizable Playboy Playmates.

== Biography ==

'''''Blonde on Blonde''''' is a [[folk rock]] [[album (music)|album]] by [[Bob Dylan]], generally believed to be the [[rock and roll]] genre's first [[double album]]. Recorded in [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], it was produced by [[Bob Johnston]] and was released in [[1966]]. The album was a critical and commercial success, though [[folk music]] purists continued to protest Dylan's fusion of folk with rock that began with ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'' and ''[[Bringing It All Back Home]]''.

=== Early life ===

She was cool. And it was good.

''Blonde on Blonde'' peaked at #9 on [[Billboard Music Charts|Billboard]]'s Pop Albums chart in the US, eventually going double-platinum, while it reached #3 in the UK.

McCarthy was born in [[Chicago, Illinois]], to a middle-class [[Irish American]] [[Catholic]] family that lived in Southwest Chicago in the [[West Elsdon, Chicago|West Elsdon]] neighborhood. She is the second of four daughters; her sisters are named [[Joanne McCarthy|Joanne]], [[Amy McCarthy|Amy]] and Lynette. Her mother, Linda, was a housewife, and her father, Dan McCarthy, was a steel mill foreman.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/specials/magazine4/articles/mccarthy.html</ref> She attended St. Turibius Grade School on Chicago's South Side. As a teenager, McCarthy attended [[Mother McAuley Liberal Arts High School]] (whose school sweater she donned in the pages of ''Playboy'') and was cheerleader at both [[Brother Rice High School]] and [[St. Laurence High School]]s,<ref>Austin, Michael and Jennifer Wehunt, "Before They Were Famous," ''[[Chicago (magazine)|Chicago]]'', pg. 76, February 2007, Volume 56, number 2.</ref><!-- no citation for status as cheerleading captain--> although she has referred to herself as an "outcast" at her school.<ref>http://www.usaweekend.com/98_issues/980719/980719talk_mccarthy.html</ref> After McCarthy graduated from high school, she attended [[Southern Illinois University Carbondale]] to study nursing. She needed money to pay for college, so she decided to submit her picture to ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine to make money. She was accepted and became a model.

=== Modeling and acting career ===

==The Recording Sessions==

After getting accepted by ''Playboy'' in 1993, the magazine wanted her to pose for the October issue. McCarthy was paid $30,000 for the photo shoot. McCarthy became the Playmate of the Month and later the Playmate of the Year. With this, McCarthy gained attention and popularity. In [[1994]], McCarthy moved to [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]. For a time, she hosted ''Hot Rocks'', a [[Playboy TV]] show featuring uncensored [[music video]]s.

In [[1995]], [[MTV]] chose McCarthy to be the host of a new dating show called ''[[Singled Out]]'', for which she left ''Hot Rocks''. Her job as a host was a success, and Playboy wanted her to model more. In [[1996]], McCarthy landed a small part in the comedy ''[[The Stupids]]''. In [[1997]] McCarthy launched two shows. The first one was an MTV sketch comedy show called ''The Jenny McCarthy Show'', which was popular enough that NBC signed her to do a sitcom later that year called ''Jenny'', generally considered a disappointment and was quickly canceled. Also in [[1997]], she appeared on one of two covers for the September issue of ''Playboy'', the other cover had [[Pamela Anderson]] on the cover. McCarthy also released an autobiography: ''Jen-X''. McCarthy once modeled for Candies, a shoe company. In one advertisement, McCarthy posed naked wearing only shoes and having her panties off while sitting on a toilet seat. This stirred a controversy.

Dylan's appearance at Newport Folk Festival in July of 1965 marked his first attempt to replicate his new sound in concert. His next attempt would come at two concerts scheduled at the end of August. [Al Kooper] and bassist Harvey Brooks, both of whom played on ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'', were hired for these performances, but guitarist Michael Bloomfield and drummer Bobby Gregg were unable to attend due to prior obligations. In their place, Dylan recruited [[Robbie Robertson]] and [[Levon Helm]], both of whom were members of the Hawks. (The Hawks would later be known as [[The Band]], one of the most celebrated groups in rock history.)

In [[1998]], McCarthy starred in ''[[BASEketball]]''. In [[1999]], she starred in ''[[Diamonds (1999 film)|Diamonds]]'', a movie which was directed by her husband [[John Mallory Asher]]. The next year, she appeared in the popular horror movie ''[[Scream 3]]''. Since [[2001]], McCarthy has guest-starred in many shows as ''[[Stacked]]'', ''[[Charmed]]'', ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'', ''[[Fastlane (TV series)|Fastlane]]'' and ''[[Just Shoot Me!]]''.

It's unclear how Dylan came to this decision; he was familiar with the Hawks through John Hammond, Jr.'s ''So Many Roads'', but it's possible his manager's secretary, Mary Martin, suggested their hiring, as well. (Martin was an avid fan of the Hawks.)

In [[2003]], McCarthy appeared in ''[[Scary Movie 3]]'' along with model and actress [[Pamela Anderson]]. In [[2005]], McCarthy produced, wrote and starred in ''[[Dirty Love]]'' along with [[Carmen Electra]]. The same year, McCarthy hosted a new show on [[E!]] called ''Party at the Palms''. The reality show, which is filmed at [[The Palms]] Hotel in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], features hotel guests, party goers and celebrities acting outrageously with McCarthy. In March 2006, she was given [[2005 Golden Raspberry Awards|Razzie Awards]] for "Worst Actress," "Worst Screenplay," and "Worst Picture" for her work on ''Dirty Love'', which also netted her then-husband, [[John Mallory Asher|John Asher]], a Razzie for "Worst Director."

Dylan actually auditioned and hired Robertson first, and backed by a preliminary four-piece band, began rehearsals at Carroll's Rehearsal Hall without Helm. After two weeks of rehearsing, "Robbie [wasn't] impressed with the drummer Bob was using and suggested he hire me instead," recalls Helm, who ultimately rehearsed with the band before securing his place as the new drummer.

=== Public persona ===

The first concert was held on August 28th in New York's Forest Hills Stadium. The first half of the show was dedicated to a 45-minute solo acoustic set, which seemed to placate his older fans, but only "To Ramona" (from ''[[Another Side of Bob Dylan]]'') predated his 'newer' work. One song, the epic "Desolation Row," was taken from ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'', which wasn't due to hit stores until two days later. After the set was over, Dylan had a brief talk with the band before beginning the second, full electric band set. According to Brooks, "We talked about just remembering the music and having a good time with it. Bob said, '...If they don't like it, too bad. They'll have to learn to like it.'"

Though McCarthy initially rose to fame because of her sexual image, a frequent source of her celebrity derives from [[toilet humor]], particularly the shock of seeing a beautiful woman urinate, vomit, pass gas, or pick her nose.

Another Candies ad, which did not cause as much controversy, found McCarthy passing gas in a crowded elevator. A sketch on her MTV show centered around her character, a well-coifed business woman, answering the question of "What did you have for lunch?" by forcing herself to vomit all over a table (which she then ate on-screen). The direct contrast of McCarthy's reputation as a sex symbol and this often grotesque humor is closely associated with her image. This image was taken to a new extreme in her film ''Dirty Love'', which featured McCarthy's character sitting in a massive pool of her own [[menstrual blood]].[http://www.hecklerspray.com/glory-at-the-razzies-for-tom-cruise-nicole-kidman/20062393.php]

With the exception of "Maggie's Farm" and "Like A Rolling Stone," the electric set was mostly unfamiliar to the audience; four songs had yet to see release on ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'' while new renditions of "It Ain't Me, Babe" and "I Don't Believe You" were radically changed, electrified versions of two songs better known in their acoustic renditions.

McCarthy has authored a series of three books about her experience with pregnancy and raising her son, Evan.

Though it's unclear what proportion of the audience was booing, they were fairly vocal. Dylan's friend Paul Nelson recalls, "There were very few people applauding the electric set. Some woman walked up to me and said, '[[Joan Baez]] wouldn't sell out like this,' and I thought, '[[Joan Baez]]? What's she got to sell out?'" (Baez herself would soon release her own records featuring electric accompaniment.)

* ''Belly Laughs: The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth''

* ''Baby Laughs: The Naked Truth about the First Year of Mommyhood''

* ''Life Laughs: The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On''.[http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/105-8650915-7462816?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=+%22jenny+mccarthy%22+&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go]

McCarthy is also an occasional columnist for ''[[FHM]]'' magazine and is currently a spokesperson for [[Weight Watchers]].

=== Personal life ===

A couple of days later, before flying to Los Angeles for the second concert, then-journalist [[Nora Ephron]] asked Dylan to respond to the audience's reaction at Forest Hills. "I thought it was great," said Dylan, "I really did. If I said anything else I'd be a liar." On September 3rd, Dylan and the band played an identical set at the [[Hollywood Bowl]]. The audience was considerably more friendly, and when [[Levon Helm]] expressed his relief, Dylan replied, "I wish they had booed. It's good publicity. Sells tickets." The [[Hollywood Bowl]] performance did get considerably less news coverage than the Forest Hills performance, which made ''[[The Village Voice]]'''s front page. ("Mods, rockers fight over new thing called 'Dylan'")

In [[1993]], McCarthy underwent [[breast augmentation]] to enhance her look as a model for ''[[Playboy]]''. Borrowing a page from fellow [[Playmate]] [[Pamela Anderson]]'s publicity playbook, McCarthy took them out in 1998.

McCarthy dated her manager Ray Manzella for a short time in 1998. After breaking up with Manzella, McCarthy began dating actor/director [[John Mallory Asher|John Asher]]. The couple got engaged in [[January]] [[1999]], and married that year on [[September 11]]. They have a son, Evan Joseph, born on [[May 18]], [[2002]]. In [[August]] [[2005]], McCarthy and Asher filed for [[divorce]].

In fact, Dylan held his first real American press conference the day after the [[Hollywood Bowl]] performance, giving a preview of the unpredictable press conferences and interviews that would be conducted over the next year.

In a February [[2006]] interview with [[Howard Stern]], [[pornography|adult]] actress [[Jenna Jameson]] said she had two sexual encounters with McCarthy.<ref>http://www.marksfriggin.com/news06/1-30.htm#wed</ref> When McCarthy visited Stern's show in April 2006, she denied having sex with Jameson, but said she "made out" with her during the two encounters. McCarthy also took a [[polygraph|lie detector]] test and passed the questions regarding Jameson. During the appearance, McCarthy also admitted to having performed [[oral sex]] on women and that she cheated on her ex-husband with both men and women.<ref>http://marksfriggin.com/news06/4-24.htm#tue</ref> However, in a later appearance on ''[[Jimmy Kimmel Live]]'', she claimed they didn't cheat on each other because it was totally agreed upon.

Meanwhile, Dylan had three more shows scheduled later in the fall, and [[Al Kooper]] suddenly informed Dylan that he would not participate as the negative reaction from previous performances proved too much for him. Upon hearing this decision, [[Levon Helm]] approached Dylan's manager with a surprising ultimatum: "Take us all, or don't take anybody." Helm was more interested in reuniting his band, the Hawks, than touring with Dylan, but as it were, Dylan accepted Helm's proposal, and two all-night rehearsals were held before Dylan and the Hawks traveled to [[Texas]] for two concerts at the end of September. Those shows, as well as an October 1st show at [[New York]]'s [[Carnegie Hall]], were all well-received, but they weren't without controversy. At the [[Carnegie Hall]] show, Dylan's friend Paul Nelson recalls that "most of the people from ''Sing Out'' made a point to leave at intermission." However, Helm adds that "at [[Carnegie Hall]] a couple of hundred people rushed the stage at the end, shouting for more...[Dylan was] really beaming. 'Thank you,' he mumbled. 'I didn't think you'd feel that way.'"

In December [[2005]], McCarthy began dating actor [[Jim Carrey]]. They did not make their relationship public until June 2006.

Perhaps as a result of these performances, Dylan decided to take the Hawks into the studio. A session produced by Bob Johnston was held on October 5th and 6th, at Columbia's Studio A in New York. The session focused on two songs: "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" The former was ultimately shelved and would later see release on 1985's boxed-set retrospective, ''[[Biograph]]'', while the latter was a new arrangement of a song recorded but rejected during sessions for ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]''. This new version of "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" was soon issued as a single-only release, reaching #58 on the singles charts.

In May [[2007]], McCarthy announced that her son was diagnosed with autism and would be coming out with a book on the subject shortly. ''Louder Than Words: A Mother's Journey in Healing Autism'' is due out in September of 2007.

As Dylan became more confident about the Hawks, the nay-sayers grew more hostile. More shows were scheduled in October, and they attracted a number of hecklers, shouting "Go back to England!" and "Get rid of the band!" It eventually took its toll on Helm, who soon left the band, citing the booing as the main reason. By now, drummer Bobby Gregg was available, and he was recruited as a replacement.

She lives in [[Sherman Oaks, California]], next to heiress [[Margo Wilson]]. Her cousin is [[Melissa McCarthy]] of the [[Gilmore Girls]].

Even without Helm, Dylan still felt he had a potential band for his next album. On November 30th, the Hawks (with Gregg still sitting in for Helm) accompanied Dylan at Columbia's Studio A to record Dylan's latest composition, "Freeze Out." Later retitled "Visions of Johanna," "Freeze Out" was an ambitious composition, a surreal epic approaching ten-minutes in some performances. Even with session players like guitarist Bruce Langhorne, keyboardist Paul Griffin, and [[Al Kooper]] standing by at the November 30th session, Dylan was unable to record a satisfactory performance of his new song.

== Appearances in ''Playboy'' special editions ==

Dylan would not hold another session until after New Year's; on January 21, 1966, he returned to Columbia's Studio A to record another long composition, "She's Your Lover Now." Accompanied by the Hawks (this time with Sandy Konikoff sitting in on drums), the session failed to yield a single complete take of "She's Your Lover Now"; Dylan would not attempt to record this song again, but a recording from the January 21st session would ultimate appear on ''[[The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991]]''. (Columbia reportedly issued the most 'complete' take from that session, as it breaks down at the start of the very last verse.)

* ''Playboy's Playmate Review'' Vol. 10 May 1994 - front & back covers, pages 82-91.

* ''Playboy's Girls of Summer '94'' June 1994.

* ''Playboy's Book of Lingerie'' Vol. 38 July 1994.

* ''Playboy's Playmates at Play'' July 1994 - pages 6-7.

* ''Playboy's Book of Lingerie'' Vol. 39 September 1994 - page 25.

* ''Playboy's Wet & Wild Playmates'' September 1994 - page 73.

* ''Playboy's Book of Lingerie'' Vol. 40 November 1994.

* ''Playboy's Nudes'' November 1994 - cover.

* ''Playboy's Playmates in Bed'' Vol. 1 January 1995.

* ''Playboy's Supermodels'' February 1995.

* ''Playboy's Book of Lingerie'' Vol. 44 July 1995 - cover.

* ''Playboy's Nudes'' October 1995.

* ''Playboy's Winter Girls'' February 1996.

* ''Playboy's Celebrating Centerfolds'' Vol. 1 December 1998 - pages 6-7.

== Filmography ==

Failing to realize two potential songs for his planned album, Dylan grew disillusioned about using the Hawks for studio recording. He held another session at Studio A on January 25th, but this time he was backed by drummer Bobby Gregg, bassist William E. Lee, pianist Paul Griffin, and Al Kooper on organ; [[Robbie Robertson]] also played at this session, and several members of the Hawks may have been present too, but their presence is uncertain due to the lack of documentation. Regardless, two more new compositions were recorded in the 25th: "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" and "One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)." Only "One of Us Must Know" was successfully realized, and a master take was later selected for the final album.

* ''[[Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead]]'' ([[1995]])

* ''[[The Stupids (film)|The Stupids]]'' ([[1996]])

* ''[[BASEketball]]'' ([[1998]])

* ''[[Diamonds (1999 film)|Diamonds]]'' ([[1999]])

* ''[[Python (film)|Python]]'' ([[2000]])

* ''[[Scream 3]]'' ([[2000]])

* ''[[Thank Heaven]]'' ([[2001]])

* ''[[Crazy Little Thing]]'' ([[2002]])

* ''[[Scary Movie 3]]'' ([[2003]])

* ''[[Dirty Love]]'' ([[2005]]) (also producer and writer)

* ''[[John Tucker Must Die]]'' ([[2006]])

* ''[[Wieners (film)|Wieners]]'' ([[2007]])

=== Television work ===

Another session was held on the 27th, this time with guitarist [[Robbie Robertson]], bassist [[Rick Danko]], [[Al Kooper]], and drummer Bobby Gregg. "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" and "One of Us Must Know" were recorded again, but Dylan was still unable to realize the former and performances of the latter did not supplant the master take that was ultimately taken from the 25th. A rough performance of "I'll Keep It With Mine" was also recorded at this session; though it doesn't appear to be a serious attempt at realizing the song, the recording was ultimately released on ''[[The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961-1991]]''.

* ''[[Singled Out]]'' (host from [[1995]]-[[1997]])

* ''The Jenny McCarthy Show'' (1997-[[1998]])

* ''[[Jenny (TV series)|Jenny]]'' (1997-1998)

* ''[[The Big Breakfast]]'' (1998)

* ''[[Honey Vicarro]]'' ([[2001]]) (unsold pilot)

* ''Untitled Jenny McCarthy Project'' ([[2003]]) (unsold pilot)

* ''[[The Bad Girl's Guide]]'' ([[2005]]) (canceled after 6 episodes)

* ''Party @ the Palms'' ([[2005]]-[[2006]])

* ''[[Hope & Faith]]'' ([[2005]]) as Mandy

* ''[[Santa Baby]]'' ([[2006]])

* ''[[Bo! in the USA]]'' ([[2006]]) as Herself (Guest)

* ''[[The View]]'' ([[2006]]) as Herself (Guest Host)

* "Home Improvement" as Alex the Mechanic

== Pro-wrestling ==

Meanwhile, the shortage of new songs and the sessions' slow progress contributed to Dylan's decision to cancel three more recording sessions he had already scheduled. Dylan would later meet with critic Robert Shelton in March and admit that "Oh, I was really down. I mean, in ten recording sessions, man, we didn't get one song...It was the band. But you see, I didn't know that. I didn't want to think that."

McCarthy made an appearance at the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|World Wrestling Federation's]] [[WrestleMania XI]] on [[April 2]], [[1995]] as a guest valet for [[Shawn Michaels]]. She left after the match with the victor, [[WWE Championship|WWF Heavyweight Champion]] [[Kevin Nash|Diesel]].

== Books ==

Around this time, Dylan decided a change in scenery would help his situation. Producer Bob Johnston had some experience recording at Columbia's studios in []Nashville]], Tennessee, working with seasoned veterans like Grady Martin and Floyd Kramer. "They were great musicians, but they were used to working a certain way," Johnston recalls. "I'd ask them to play this or that part, and they'd say, 'Nope, don't want to play that.' They wouldn't play anything they didn't want to play." Johnston was also familiar with a number of musicians, including Jerry Kennedy, Wayne Moss, and Kenny Buttrey, who had moved up to [[Nashville]] from Florida and other parts of the South. "I started using them on demo sessions [in [[Nashville]]] and liked them." During sessions for ''[[Highway 61 Revisited]]'', Johnston flew one of these musicians, Charlie McCoy, into New York to accompany Dylan on "Desolation Row." It was during those sessions that Johnston told Dylan he should try recording in [[Nashville]]. "I said, 'You outta come on down to [[Nashville]] sometime. They got no clocks down there, and they've really got a bunch [of] great musicians - everybody really cares...Bob just kind of said, 'Hmm,' and put his hand to his chin, looking like [[Jack Benny]]" recalls Johnston. "That's how he always was with a new idea - everything you ever said to him he always heard, but he never reacted right away. He'd just file it away, and it would come out later if he liked it." Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, and Columbia Records president Bill Gallagher, were present during this exchange, and according to Johnston, "a little later, [they] came to me and said, 'If you ever mention anything about [[Nashville]] again to Dylan, we'll fire you. The reason being, we're having too much success the way we're doing it now.' I said, 'Okay, you're the boss.'"

* ''Belly Laughs, The Naked Truth about Pregnancy and Childbirth'' (ISBN 978-0-7382-0949-4)

* ''Baby Laughs, The Naked Truth about the First Year of Mommyhood'' (ISBN 978-0-525-94883-4)

* ''Life Laughs, The Naked Truth about Motherhood, Marriage, and Moving On'' (ISBN 978-0-525-94947-3)

== See also ==

However, Dylan never forgot Johnston's suggestion. A session was actually scheduled for November of 1965, but it was cancelled at the last minute. With his current situation, Dylan decided to give [[Nashville]] a try. "It wasn't me pressuring him in any way," recalls Johnston. "I took him to [[Nashville]] later because he'd said, 'Let's go down there.'"

* [[List of people in Playboy 1990-1999]]

== Footnotes ==

On February 14th, [[Valentine's Day]], Dylan held his first recording session at Columbia's Music Row Studios in [[Nashville]], Tennessee. In addition to [[Al Kooper]], Dylan and Johnston recruited guitarist and bassist Charlie McCoy, guitarist Wayne Moss, guitarist and bassist Joe South, and drummer Kenny Buttrey. Charlie McCoy recalls, "When [Dylan] first came in...he asked us if we'd mind waiting a while. They had stopped at an airport in Richmond and he didn't have a chance to finish his material....So we all went out and let him have the studio to himself. He ended up staying in there [writing] for six hours."

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Three songs were recorded at that first [[Nashville]] session, with "Fourth Time Around" and "Visions of Johanna" receiving successful renditions that were ultimately chosen for the album. Further attempts at "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat," however, were deemed unsatisfactory. (Guitarist Jerry Kennedy and pianist Hargus "Pig" Robinson attended this session, playing only on "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat.")

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The next day, Dylan held an extended session that lasted through the early morning hours of February 16th. However, studio logs indicate that no actual songs were recorded until 4 a.m. on the morning of the 16th. It was during this session that Dylan recorded another epic composition, "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands." Ken Buttrey recalls, "[Dylan] ran down a verse and a chorus and he just quit and said, 'We'll do a verse and a chorus then I'll play my harmonica thing. Then we'll do another verse and a chorus then I'll play some more harmonica, and we'll see how it goes from there.'...we were preparing ourselves dynamically for a basic two- to three- minute record because records just didn't go over three minutes...If you notice that record, that thing after like the second chorus starts building and building like crazy, and everybody's just peaking it up 'cause we thought, Man, this is it...This is gonna be the last chorus and we've gotta put everything into it we can. And he played another harmonica solo and went back down to another verse and the dynamics had to drop back down to a verse kind of feel...After about ten minutes of this thing we're cracking up at each other, at what we were doing. I mean, we peaked five minutes ago. Where do we go from here?"

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Another session, held at 6 p.m. on February 17th, was dedicated to yet another epic composition, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again." A master take was successfully recorded and later included on the final album.

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Dylan left [[Nashville]] to play a handful of concerts, backed by the Hawks, but he returned in March to resume sessions at Columbia's Music Row Studios. This time, he came prepared with eight songs to record. According to [[Al Kooper]], Dylan would spend much of his spare time in his hotel room, refining these compositions. "He had a piano in his room at the hotel and during the day I would go up there and he would teach me the song," recalls Kooper. "I would play the song over and over on the piano for him. This served a double purpose. One, he could concentrate on writing lyrics and didn't have to mess with playing the piano; two, I could go to the studio early that night and teach it to the band before he even got there, so they could be playing the song before he even walked through the door."

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On March 8th, master takes of "Absolutely Sweet Marie," "Just Like A Woman," and "Pledging My Time" were all recorded. A final, all-night session ran through the evening of March 9th into the early morning hours of March 10th, producing master takes of "Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)," "Temporary Like Achilles," "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35," "Obviously Five Believers," "I Want You," and "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat," all of which would be included on the final album.

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Dylan was very pleased with the [[Nashville]] sessions, and when he supervised the final mix of ''Blonde on Blonde'' in April in Los Angeles, he had enough material for a double-album.

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"The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the ''Blonde on Blonde'' album," Dylan would later say in 1978. "It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That's my particular sound. I haven't been able to succeed in getting it all the time. Mostly I've been driving at a combination of guitar, harmonica, and organ."

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[[Salon.com]] critic Bill Wyman praised ''Blonde on Blonde'' for its songs and performances, writing that "[Dylan's] singing alone is a catalog of the human emotion genome, excepting perhaps mercy. Dylan swaggers, brags, sighs, loves, loses, smiles, grieves, pleads, lusts, swoons and trips - and that's just on 'Pledging My Time' and 'Visions of Johanna.' The album contains 'Just Like a Woman,' a love song so elegant and confused it's not clear today, nearly 35 years later, whether it is insufferably condescending or startlingly loving. Another picaresque, 'Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again,' has his most canny female character -- Ruthie, who tells him that his debutante just knows what he needs, but she knows what he wants. The album ends with a song that took up an entire album side back in the vinyl days, a love song to Sara Dylan, 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands,' more feverish and disturbed than even Van Morrison's ''[[Astral Weeks]]''."

"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" opens ''Blonde on Blonde'' with "a Salvation Army sound," as Dylan describes it. Wyman referred to it as a "stoner anthem" due to its drunk atmosphere and the continual use of the word "stoned" ("But I would not feel so all along / Everybody must get stoned"), but as Clinton Heylin writes, the song generated "some controversy among those unconversant with Proverbs 27:15." ("A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.")

Though every song on ''Blonde on Blonde'' has received a fair share of critical acclaim, the most important and celebrated song on the double-album is arguably "Visions of Johanna." Heylin wrote that it was perhaps "his most perfect composition. The song's imagery is bone-chillingly precise, even as its subject matter, the omnipresent yet physically absent Johanna, hovers nebulously out of reach."

[[NPR]]'s Tim Riley writes that "'Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again' may be rock's grandest costume piece, balancing displacement and alienation with the offhand hatchet job (Shakespeare hitting on a French girl, the preacher 'dressed / With twenty pounds of headlines / Stapled to his chest')."

When Dylan played an early acetate of "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" to his friend, Jules Siegel, he told him, "Now that is religious music! That is religious carnival music. I just got that real old-time religious carnival sound there, didn't I?"

==Different permutations of ''Blonde on Blonde''==

''Blonde on Blonde'' has been issued in no fewer than eleven different forms, with marked differences in mixes and track lengths. No specific version has been established as canonical. In at least one European market, it was originally released as two single LPs. Even the album's original release date remains in doubt; while Columbia reports an official date of May 16, 1966, several Dylan discographers have challenged the date. In 1968, Columbia revised the album cover's inside gatefold.

==Aftermath==

''Blonde on Blonde'' was a commercial success; it even spawned several hit singles that restored Dylan to the upper echelons of the singles chart. However, it was an even greater critical success. As critic Dave Marsh wrote in <u>The Rolling Stone Record Guide</u>, ''Blonde on Blonde'' is widely regarded as one of Dylan's "best albums, and [one] of the greatest in the history of rock & roll."

"A sprawling abstraction of eccentric blues revisionism, ''Blonde on Blonde'' confirms Dylan's stature as the greatest American rock presence since [[Elvis Presley]]," writes Tim Riley. Critic [[Greil Marcus]] wrote that ''Blonde on Blonde'' is "the sound of a man trying to stand up in a drunken boat, and, for the moment, succeeding. His tone was sardonic, scared, threatening, as if he'd awakened after paying all his debts to find that nothing was settled."

In [[1997]] ''Blonde on Blonde'' was named the 16th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by [[HMV]], [[Channel 4]], ''[[The Guardian]]'' and [[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]]. In [[1998]] [[Q_(magazine)|''Q'' magazine]] readers placed it at number 47.

Soon after handing the final mixes of ''Blonde on Blonde'' over to Columbia Records, Dylan flew to Hawaii for the first of many concerts scheduled in a two-month tour. The album would not be released until mid-May of 1966, and until then Dylan had a series of concert engagements to attend to.

Despite their disappointing performances in the studio, the Hawks were far more successful on-stage. Though some 'fans' remained prejudiced against Dylan's new musical direction, the Hawks would eventually become Dylan's most celebrated touring band. That reputation would be secured with the upcoming tour, arguably the most celebrated tour in rock history, and eventually documented in ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Bob Dylan Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert]]''.

==Track listing==

All songs written by Bob Dylan.

===Disc 1===

#"Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"

#"Pledging My Time"

#"[[Visions of Johanna]]"

#"One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)"

#"I Want You"

#"Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"

#"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat"

#"Just Like a Woman"

===Disc 2===

#"Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine"

#"Temporary Like Achilles"

#"Absolutely Sweet Marie"

#"[[4th Time Around]]"

#"[[Obviously 5 Believers]]"

#"[[Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands]]"

==Personnel==

*[[Bob Dylan]] - [[Guitar]], [[Harmonica]], [[Piano]], [[musical keyboard|Keyboards]], [[Vocals]]

*[[Al Kooper]] - [[organ (music)|Organ]], [[Guitar]], [[Horn]], [[musical keyboard|Keyboards]]

*[[Robbie Robertson]] - [[Guitar]], [[Vocals]]

*[[Joe South]] - [[Guitar]]

*[[Rick Danko]] - [[Bass guitar|Bass]], [[Violin]], [[Vocals]]

*[[Bill Atkins]] - [[musical keyboard|Keyboards]]

*[[Wayne Butler]] - [[Trombone]]

*[[Kenneth A. Buttrey]] - [[Drums]]

*[[Paul Griffin]] - [[Piano]]

*[[Amy Herot]] - Reissue [[Record producer|Producer]]

*[[Garth Hudson]] - [[musical keyboard|Keyboards]], [[Saxophone]]

*[[Bob Johnston]] - [[Record producer|Producer]]

*[[Jerry Kennedy]] - [[Guitar]]

*[[Sanford Konikoff]] - [[Drums]]

*[[Richard Manuel]] - [[Drums]], [[musical keyboard|Keyboards]], [[Vocals]]

*[[Wayne Moss]] - [[Guitar]], [[Vocals]]

*[[Hargus "Pig" Robbins]] - [[Piano]], [[musical keyboard|Keyboards]]

*[[Henry Strzelecki]] - [[Bass guitar|Bass]]

*[[Mark Wilder]] - Remixing, Remastering

*[[Charlie McCoy]] - [[Bass guitar|Bass]], [[Guitar]], [[Harmonica]], [[Trumpet]]

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