Bringing It All Back Home

On his next album, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), electric instruments were openly brandished—a violation of folk dogma—and only two protest songs were included. The folk rock group the Byrds covered “Mr. Tambourine Man” from that album, adding electric 12-string guitar and three-part

…of his partly electric album Bringing It All Back Home (1965), accelerated the already growing onslaught of socially conscious folk-flavoured music done with a rock beat and electric guitars. The genre reached a peak of formal elegance in the music of the Byrds, a Los Angeles-based quintet (founded by former…

Dylan’s next album, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), would be half acoustic and half electric, with a band selected by Wilson. The record established Dylan as a revolutionary force in rock music.

…released the partly electric album Bringing It All Back Home and had recorded much of Highway 61 Revisited with rock-oriented musicians and electric instruments. The week of the 1965 festival, Dylan’s acerbic single “Like a Rolling Stone” was omnipresent on U.S. Top 40 radio. Called electric blues by some and…