Week 2: Going electric at Newport, 1965. The trilogy: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61, Blonde on Blonde. Some interpretations of HIGHWAY 61: lynchings, musical ancestry, mysterious women, Father Abraham, clueless reporters. "Judas!"

1. ESSENTIALS:
“LIKE A ROLLING STONE,”
HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED,
and the rebirth of
ROCK & ROLL
IN 1965

2. FIRST THINGS FIRST
★ Please take a card & fill it out
★ CCNs will be emailed tonight to 25
people

3. NEWPORT
★ Newport Folk Festival, July 25, 1965
★ The “Elston Gunn Blues Band”
★ “I ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm
no more...”

4. [video clip: “Maggie’s Farm”
at Newport, 1965]

5. RE-AX-IONS
★ The sound, the ax
★ A civil war between fans

6. BRINGING IT ALL
BACK HOME
★ The first in a trilogy
★ Surreal poetry and
electric guitars mixed in
with the traditional
format
★ The first music video?

7. [video clip: “Subterranean
Homesick Blues,” from DONT
LOOK BACK, 1965]

8. HIGHWAY 61
REVISITED
★ Recorded in six days
★ #4 Best Album ever,
according to Rolling
Stone

9. HIGHWAY 61 IS REAL

10. DESOLATION ROW
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town

11. DESOLATION ROW
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town

12. ROLLINGSTONE, MN

13. DRAMATIS
PERSONAE
★ “Miss Lonely”
★ God said to Abraham,
★ “Mr. Jones”

14. BLONDE ON BLONDE
★ Ladies...
★ The “thin wild
mercury” sound at
its peak
★ 1966

15. JUDAS!
★ Touring England
★ Manchester Free Trade Hall
★ “Royal Albert Hall”
★ “A performance of Gothic
immensity” (Kershaw)
★ The Bootleg Series, Vol. 4

16. [video clip: “Judas!” heckler,
from No Direction Home,
2005]

17. NEXT WEEK