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Thread #157628   Message #3721650
Posted By: GUEST
07-Jul-15 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: Newport Folk and electric guitar
Subject: RE: Newport Folk and electric guitar
Thanks a lot everybody. This is great. I was wondering if there was a set list, at least a list of performances covering the first decade of Newport Folk. I would like to determine a few things:

1) Did anyone play electric previuosly to the July 25, 1965 Dylan appearance? PHJim answers: "In 1964, Muddy Waters and Yank Rachell both played with electric instruments."

But how does PHJim know this? What is the documentation behind this?

2) Who were all of the electric players before Dylan.

3) Which was first and deserves the credit (or the blame) for introducing the electric guitar at Newport Folk.

I ask this question because the Dylan story recieved so much spin that you a body might think that Dylan introduced the electric at Newport.