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Dylan, Electrified
50 years ago, Bob Dylan released Bringing It All Back Home. Side two of the album featured the acoustic sound that most of the singer/songwriter’s fans may have expected — Dylan’s previous release, Another Side of Bob Dylan, found the artist abandoning the topical subjects that marked his earlier releases in favor of increasingly hypnotic [...]
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Dylan & Bloomfield
In 1965 Bob Dylan released Bringing it all Back Home — the record’s first side featuring the folk music hero playing with an electric band. In July of that same year, Dylan played the Newport Folk Festival and made history when he took to the hallowed stage with the fully amplified Paul Butterfield Blues Band [...]
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Tagged blues, Bob Dylan, Chicago, Dylan goes electric, Elmore James, Great Migration, Heroin, Mike Bloomfield, Newport Folk Festival, overdose, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, San Fransisco, The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar, The Mike Bloomfield Story, Warfield Theatre
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