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Bob Dylan Mississippi River Festival

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EDWARDSVILLE, MISSOURI — A relaxed Bob Dylan, his voice still Nashville-Skylined, made a surprise appearance in this small college town outside St. Louis July 14th before a crowd of some 3000 Mississippi River Festival-goers.
The festival, several weeks in the running, features one-big-name concerts held in a large tent on a field at Southern Illinois University, and the headliner for the July 14th show was the Band.
They did their usual tight set, earning a call for an encore. But instead of coming on with “Slippin’ and Slidin’,” they returned accompanied by a guitar-toting, cowboyish figure in brown shirt, pants, and boots.

NEW YORK CITY, Carnegie Hall -The year before in ´68, Bob Dylan finally emerged from 18 months of self-imposed seclusion at the Woody Guthrie Memorial Concert in Carnegie Hall on January 20. His appearance had been announced and the two performances were sold out weeks in advance. Scalpers were reportedly getting $25.00 per ticket, and at the concert itself people were standing on the sidewalk and in the lobby begging, “Extra tickets? Any tickets for sale?” Images © David Gahr, Carnegie Hall, NYC – January 20, 1968


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