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[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
T Bone Burnett
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T Bone Burnett
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
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St. Louis
Missouri
Joseph Henry Burnett III
T-Bone Burnett
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