Thursday, July 23, 2015

Bob Dylan At Newport: The Day 50 Years Ago That Everything Changed

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PHOTOGRAPH: ALICE OCHS/MICHAEL OCHS ARCHIVES/GETTY IMAGES

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And here's Sister Rosetta Tharpe in 1964, plugged in electric:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M

Shaun Mullen said...

Thank you! One of the myths dispelled in Elijah Wald's new book on Dylan going election at Newport in 1965 is that he broke that barrier. Sister Rosetta and black blues musicians had already done so in previous years.