As a music historian, I've always respected one decision of Dylan's in particular – one that kicked off the young artist's most turbulent and significant period of creative activity.
Sixty years ago, on Halloween Night 1964, a 23-year-old Dylan took the stage at New York City's Philharmonic Hall. He had become a star within the niche genre of revivalist folk music. But by 1964 Dylan was building a much larger fanbase through performing and recording his own songs.
Dylan presented a solo set, mixing material he had previously recorded with some new songs. Representatives from his label, Columbia Records, were on hand to record the concert, with the intent to release the live show as his fifth official album.
It would have been a logical successor to Dylan's four other Columbia albums. With the exception of one track, "Corrina, Corrina," those albums, taken together, featured exclusively solo acoustic performances.
But at the end of 1964, Columbia shelved the recording of the Philharmonic Hall concert. Dylan had decided that he wanted to make a different kind of music.
Two-and-a-half years earlier, Dylan, then just 20 years old, started earning acclaim within New York City's folk music community. At the time, the folk music revival was taking place in cities across the country, but Manhattan's Greenwich Village was the movement's beating heart.
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