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by Sheila
Lennon May 8, 2002 • Last week's weblog Dylan bringin' it all back home to Newport: An email from Providence reader Bryan Rodrigues tipped us that Bob Dylan is to play the Newport Folk Festival August 3, according to the tour date page at bobdylan.com, which lists an appearance at Fort Adams State Park, site of the festival, on that date. It would be Dylan's first return to Newport since Sunday, July 25, 1965. Then, after an acoustic set, he returned to the stage with an electric guitar and three members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band in tow (guitarist Mike Bloomfield; bass player Jerome Arnold and drummer Sam Lay) and lit into Maggie's Farm (RealAudio clip), to the boos of the folkies who expected a reprise of the 1963 Dylan-Baez croonfest. I was there, standing on my chair, dancing to what was easily the loudest music of the night. Bringin' It All Back Home, the album with Maggie's Farm on it, had been released in March of the same year, and Like a Rolling Stone (RealAudio clip), released in July, was currently a radio hit, so the electric set was really only a surprise to those who thought Bob might revert for the occasion. Nevertheless, after trying to start It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (RealAudio clip) from the about-to-be-released Highway 61 Revisited album, which the crowd drowned out with boos, they left the stage. Dylan returned alone with acoustic guitar and harmonica rig, sang Mr. Tambourine Man (RealAudio clip) and the telling It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (RealAudio clip), and never came back to Newport. The official Newport Folk Festival site says, "The 2002 artist line-up will be announced here and in Newport on May 9th. Tickets will go on sale for subscribers on May 10th." The "subscribers" are those who've signed up for the mailing list. There's a simple email-address-entry form to subscribe. Were you
there in '65? Tell
us about it, please. We'll publish it.
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