Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties Son Lux Greene Street cafe

Greene Street cafe

Moscoman and Boxed In

and BLOWOFF (first time on vinyl)

“Cat Scratch Fever” 4

In celebration of the album’s 20th anniversary

Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties Son Lux Greene Street cafeOne of the music worlds pre eminent critics takes a fresh and much needed look at the day Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. On the evening of July 25, 1965, Bob Dylan took the stage at Newport Folk Festival, backed by an electric band, and roared into his new rock hit, Like a Rolling Stone. The audience of committed folk purists and political activists who had hailed him as their acoustic prophet reacted with a mix of shock, booing,