Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties
One of the music world’s pre-eminent critics takes a fresh and much-needed look at the day Dylan “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival, timed to coincide with the event’s fiftieth anniversary. …
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