We’ve been wrapped up in life’s rich pageant and periscoping house concerts (led by Joseph Arthur–more on that soon).  And all the while the musical juggernaut gathered steam around the world as summer shifted into overdrive.

For example, the Newport Folk Festival took place two weekends ago, and it came to a close when Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Dawes and a host of artists joined to memorialize Bob Dylan’s seminal “electric” set at the same festival exactly 50 years prior.  During that historic 1965 set, Dylan blew caution to the wind and shocked the folked-up crowd with an electrical instrument set that forever changed rock n’ roll (and folk) music as we know it.  That’s all.  In 2015 the artists on stage at Newport paid tribute and entitled the set ’65 Revisited.  Even from afar, it was a sight filled with sounds to behold.

’65 Revisited (setlist below) began with some song entitled Mr. Tambourine Man, performed by the great Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings.  Next up was All I Really Want to Do, as done up by Willie Watson.  Welch and Rawlings then performed one of our favorite songs of all time, It’s All Over Now Baby Blue.  Robyn Hitchock later played Visions of Johanna, which he dubbed “possibly the greatest song ever written, that’s all.”  Dawes then joined for a raucous Maggie’s Farm and a crowd-sing Like a Rolling Stone.  And history was made yet again.

Oh to have been there.  In the meantime feast below on fan videos of much of the above.  So very good.

’65 Revisited

“Mr. Tambourine Man” – Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings
“All I Really Want to Do” – Willie Watson
“Love Minus Zero” – Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, and Willie Watson
“It’s All Over Now Baby Blue” – Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings
“Maggie’s Farm” – Dawes
“Takes a Train to Cry” – Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Gillian Welch, Dawes, and Al Kooper
“Tom’s Thumbs Blues” – Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Gillian Welch, Dawes, Dave Rawlings, Al Kooper, Hozier, and First Aid Kit
“Outlaw Blues” – Deer Tick, Dawes, Al Kooper
“Just Like a Woman” – Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Dawes, Al Kooper, and Blake Mills
“Visions of Johanna” – Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Dawes, Al Kooper, and Robyn Hitchcock
“Sooner or Later One of Us Must Know” – Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Dawes, Al Kooper
“Like a Rolling Stone” – Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings, Dawes, Al Kooper
“Rainy Day Woman” – All artists