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by Sheila
Lennon
'Bottom-up' journalism from the pros
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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