DYLAN: VERY RARE: 1965 NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL PROGRAM
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A RARE CHANCE TO BUY THIS GENUINELY VALUABLE COLLECTOR'S ITEM FROM THE HISTORIC
NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 1965!
THE ONE AT WHICH BOB DYLAN WENT ELECTRIC AND FIRST PERFORMED 'LIKE A ROLLING STONE' LIVE!!
THIS IS AN OFFICIAL PROGRAM FOR THAT FESTIVAL
8.6 inches x 11 inches
with lovely textured art-paper front & back cover and a further 64 numbered pages on smooth, high-quality cream paper
The second photo shows the inside pages that published, for the first time, Bob Dylan's great slice of prose poetry 'Off The Top Of My Head'
Other pages include many great photographs, plus messages from Alan Lomax, Ralph Rinzler, Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Peter Yarrow, Ronnie Gilbert and Theodore Bikel, seven detailed reports, articles on the Sea Islands, the vogue for harmonicas and the history of the fife and drum, a prescient thinkpiece by Robert Shelton, 'A Little Behind The Beat - Changing Times: From Folk To Folk Rock To Nashville?', a savag attack on the 1964 Folk Festival by the late Paul Nelson of the Little Sandy Review, titled 'A Voice OF Dissent: How I Started Worrying and Learned to Bomb Newport', articles by Irwin Silber, page after page on those billed to appear at the '65 Festival, the full detailed schedule of appearances - they included JOAN BAEZ, ODETTA, DONOVAN, SON HOUSE, REV. GARY DAVIS, ROSCOE HOLCOMB, MISSISSIPPI JOHN, KWESKIN JUG BAND, IAN & SYLVIA, LIGHTNING [sic] HOPKINS, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, BILL MONROE, JEAN RITCHIE, ERIC VON SCHMIDT, NEW LOST CITY RAMBLERS, JEAN RITCHIE, MIMI & DICK [sic] FARINA, MARK SPOELSTRA, ECK ROBERTSON AND MAYBELLE CARTER
plus many fantastic of-their-time ads by record companies, folksingers' managers, long-gone airlines, etc. etc.
As shown, this artefact is slightly lightly browned around the very edges of the pages, with slight stain at top left, but is otherwise in excellent condition for its age.
PLUS!!
THIS SPECIFIC PROGRAM WAS FIRST OWNED BY ITS CO-EDITOR, ROBERT SHELTON (aka Stacey Williams), THE NEW YORK TIMES FOLK CRITIC WHO GAVE DYLAN HIS FIRST WRITE-UP, AND WROTE THE SLEEVENOTES TO HIS FIRST ALBUM - AND THEN OWNED BY MICHAEL GRAY, WRITER OF SONG & DANCE MAN III AND THE BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA!!
full provenance will be supplied to the buyer
Seller accepts PayPal
(but NOT an e-Cheque or e-Check)
Will mail to anywhere in the world
Post & packing as follows:
to UK: £3
to Europe: £7
to North America and rest of world: £10
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