Newport Folk Festival 1965

The line-up:

Thursday, July 22: Joan Baez, Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, Maybelle Carter, the Cajun Band, Rev. Gary Davis, Son House, Lilly Bros. & Tex Logan, New Lost City Ramblers, Eck Robertson and Josh White.

Friday, July 23: Cape Breton Singers, Roscoe Holcomb, Mississippi John Hurt, Sam & Kirk McGee & Arthur Smith, Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon, Moving Star Hall Singers, New York Street Games, Arthur Nicolle, Larry Older, Peter, Paul & Mary, Dock Reese & Texas Work Song Group, Pete Seeger, Ed Young & Southern Fife & Drum Corps and Annie Walters.

Saturday, July 24: Horton Barker, Margaret Barry & Michael Gorman, Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, Lightning Hopkins, Ian & Sylvia, Norman Kennedy, Kweskin Jug Band, A.L. Lloyd, Bill Monroe & Blue Grass Boys, New England Contra Dancers, Odetta and Joe Patterson.

Sunday, July 25: Bob Dylan, Fiddler Beers Family, Len Chandler, Cousin Emmy, Ronnie Gilbert, Fannie Lou Hamer, Shang Dance Troupe, Mance Lipscomb, Moving Star Hall Singers, Peter, Paul & Mary, Jean Ritchie and Eric Von Schmidt.

For his brief, historic electric set, Dylan was backed by Mike Bloomfield on lead electric guitar, Al Kooper on organ, Barry Goldberg on piano, Jerome Arnold on bass and Sam Lay on drums. He opened with "Maggie's Farm" from his most recent LP, Bringing It All Back Home, to mixed boos and cheers. Dylan then did his upcoming big hit "Like a Rolling Stone," and closed with an early version of "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" which is called "Phantom Engineer." After being called back by the crowd and MC Peter Yarrow, Dylan performs two final songs solo acoustically: "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," his swan song to Newport (he wouldn't return until 2002).