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Bob Dylan: In Concert: Brandeis University 1963

Steven R Rosen, Blurt, 8 April 2011

WHILE LIBRARIES are filled with books about what's been gained from Dylan going electric, it's worth taking a couple minutes – maybe while listening to 'Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues' on Dylan's just-released In Concert: Brandeis University 1963 – to consider what today might be like had he not changed into the great hipster rock poet/roots-Americana progenitor that he became in 1965.

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