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‘If I had an axe, I’d cut the cable’: What really angered Pete Seeger about Bob Dylan’s Newport set

Pete Seeger bluntly refutes the oft-told notion that he tried to pull the plug on Bob Dylan’s first electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. In fact, Seeger says he was upset over the primitive sound system. You May Also Like: Christian Scott Confirmed His Vision for JazzRead More

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One Track Mind: Johnny Cash, "Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right" (2011)

It’s one thing to cover somebody, quite another to expose something fundamentally true about the original song through your interpretation — and that happens with Johnny Cash’s take on this Bob Dylan classic. You May Also Like: Johnny Cash’s American VI: Ain’t No Grave was a rustic, spiritual, unbent farewellRead More