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Tom Rush Tells Why He's Now Electrified!

Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 11 November 1966

ONCE UPON a time folk singers looked at electric guitars and top 40 radio in horror. Then several years back the big hero of the folk world, Bob Dylan, shocked the purists by plugging into the electric current and getting his records played on top 40 stations.

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