Double-album masterpiece Blonde on Blonde offers a couple of Dylan standards, such as "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" and "Just Like a Woman," but the real gems here are the longer pieces. The rambling lyrical landscapes of "Visions of Johanna" and "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" are powerful backdrops to Dylan's lightning-strike poetic brilliance.

Harold Check