Fact #32796
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After a four year break, The Newport Folk Festival returns at Newport, Rhode Island, USA. John Lee Hooker plays on the first and third days. The three-day event also features Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton, Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Peter Paul and Mary.
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Loudon Wainwright III (folk singer) : There was a skinny guy [Bob Dylan] standing up there with a guitar, not much older than I was. He was amazing. The power of the performance has stayed with me. It was clear to us that here was someone special. And we were right about that.
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Murray Lerner (film-maker) : Filming at Newport in 1963, I suddenly realised more was happening here than performances. Dylan was incredible. A song like North Country Blues was such a transformation of that form, with real social meaning and such lucidity. You saw his power, both on an off stage. I used to see him and Joan Baez around Newport. He had a bullwhip and would crack it on the street ahead of them as they walked.
(Radio Times interview, October 13, 2007)
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Murray Lerner (film-maker) : Filming at Newport in 1963, I suddenly realised more was happening here than performances. Dylan was incredible. A song like North Country Blues was such a transformation of that form, with real social meaning and such lucidity. You saw his power, both on an off stage. I used to see him and Joan Baez around Newport. He had a bullwhip and would crack it on the street ahead of them as they walked.
(Radio Times interview, October 13, 2007)