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“The performers on these LPs were a new and different breed in popular music – the singer/songwriter – unique to my generation:. It had been common for years in American blues and folk that the singer and writer of the song were the same person. In popular music the singer was instead like an actor, given the script (the song) and told to make it fly. Bob Dylan, central to the global change but uniquely American, emerged from the folk tradition, but when he “went electric” at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, the political and artistic thrust of blues and folk fused with rock ‘n’ roll, with its back beat and electrified power. Now popular music took on the power and immediacy and the author model of blues and folk. The world – you can’t argue this – would never be the same. ” FROM AN AMERICAN STORY
