Blonde on Blonde is the seventh studio album by American singer- songwriter Bob Dylan, released on May 16, 1966, by Columbia Records. The album completes a rock trilogy, with Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited. Unsatisfied with the initial recording sessions, Dylan brought his keyboardist Al Kooper and guitarist Robbie Robertson to the CBS studios in Nashville, Tennessee, where all but one of the album's songs were recorded in February and March. Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album's songs have been described as operating on a grand scale musically, while featuring lyrics that the writer Michael Gray called "a unique blend of the visionary and the colloquial". One of the first rock double albums, it peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard 200 chart in the US, where it eventually went double-platinum, and reached No. 3 in the UK. Blonde on Blonde spawned two top twenty singles in the US: "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "I Want You". "Just Like a Woman" and "Visions of Johanna" made Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. The album has consistently ranked high in greatest-albums polls.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1771:
The Battle of Alamance—the final battle of the War of the Regulation, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina over issues of taxation and local control—was fought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alamance
1866:
The United States Congress authorized the minting of the country's first copper-nickel five-cent piece, the Shield nickel (pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_nickel
1916:
The United Kingdom and France signed the Sykes–Picot Agreement, a secret agreement considered to have shaped the Middle East, defining the borders of Iraq and Syria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
1966:
Chinese leader Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution officially as a campaign to rid China of its liberal bourgeois elements and to continue revolutionary class struggle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
1975:
Based on the results of a referendum held about one month earlier, Sikkim abolished its monarchy and was annexed by India, becoming its 22nd state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim
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waft: 1. (ergative) To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. 2. (intransitive) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. 3. To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waft
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If I were in a wood, I could easily hear the Voice which came to me. It seemed to me to come from lips I should reverence. I believe it was sent me from God. When I heard it for the third time, I recognized that it was the Voice of an Angel. This Voice has always guarded me well, and I have always understood it; it instructed me to be good and to go often to Church; it told me it was necessary for me to come into France. --Joan of Arc https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc