Bob Dylan — The Other Side of the Mirror — Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963–1965
Recorded 1965
Newport Folk Festival · Newport · 
United States
Featuring Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, The Freedom Singers, Peter, Paul and Mary, Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel
Setlist
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Latest album at the timeThe Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan1963The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan's most recent studio album at the time of the recording.“To follow the three Newport summers that culminate in Dylan's controversial electric set in 1965.”
Context
In Newport, three summers are enough to change the relationship between Bob Dylan and the festival that welcomes him. Between 1963 and 1965, Murray Lerner's cameras follow workshops, gatherings and evening performances. The journey starts among acoustic guitars and collective voices and arrives at the electric guitar in front of a divided audience.
Joan Baez shares the microphone with Dylan, while Johnny Cash appears singing Don't Think Twice, It's All Right. In 1965, Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Barry Goldberg, Jerome Arnold and Sam Lay enter the frame. Maggie's Farm and Like a Rolling Stone lay the change bare; afterward, Dylan returns alone with an acoustic guitar.
The footage travels through decades before getting this edit in 2007, after part of the material appeared in Festival, from 1967. The DVD gathers more than eighty minutes of previously unreleased footage. Instead of reducing Newport to the electric shock, the film preserves the earlier steps and the acoustic return that closes that performance.
- Joan Baez runs through the film in duets with Dylan and in an impression of the singer.
- The 1965 block moves from the electric band to a solitary return with acoustic guitar.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Bob DylanVocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar and harmonica
- Mike BloomfieldGuitar in the 1965 electric group
- Al KooperOrgan and bass in the 1965 electric group
- Barry GoldbergPiano and organ in the 1965 electric group
- Jerome ArnoldBass in the 1965 electric group
- Sam LayDrums in the 1965 electric group
- Joan BaezguestVocals on duets and guest spots
- Johnny CashguestVocals on Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
- The Freedom SingersguestVocals on Blowin' in the Wind
- Peter, Paul and MaryguestVocals on Blowin' in the Wind
- Pete SeegerguestVocals on the 1963 group finale
- Theodore BikelguestVocals on the 1963 group finale
Trivia
With God on Our Side combines, in the 1963 edit, footage from a workshop and an evening performance.
Joan Baez imitates Dylan while singing Mary Hamilton in the 1964 block.
The 1965 electric group brings together Mike Bloomfield, Jerome Arnold and Sam Lay, musicians from the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
Part of Murray Lerner's footage had already appeared in Festival, from 1967.
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