On this day in 1965, Dylan put down the acoustic and played an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival.
Maybe we can say that Dylan moved rock and folk music closer together by going electric.
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“Like a rolling stone” and “Queen Jane approximately“, from the LP “Highway 61 Revisited“, were early examples of Dylan going electric.
At about the same time, The Byrds released their electric version of “Mr. Tambourine Man“. The group's LP also included “All I really want to do“, another Dylan song.