Every record that I made had acoustic and electric songs on it.
For Young, it also marks a return to glories such as After the Goldrush and Harvest, records that boasted both acoustic and electric songs.
Although Mr. Dylan had already released the album "Bringing It All Back Home," with electric songs on one LP side and acoustic ones on the other, and the single "Like a Rolling Stone," the Newport appearance incited denunciations by old-line folkies, who fulminated that he was deserting the cause of well-meaning agitprop.
So much of his songwriting from this time is about the need to challenge the "protesty" (his word) stereotype – from acoustic pieces such as "It Ain't Me Babe" and "My Back Pages" to electric songs such as "Ballad of a Thin Man" and "Like a Rolling Stone", the celebration of abandonment and solitude with which he repeatedly taunted the outraged elements of his audience.
Semi-electric songs like The Man Man still find time for baying-hounds solos, but his more psychedelic and folky sides are uppermost, never more so than on the duelling guitars (both Segall's) on 6th Street.
LAST month Kanye West released "Monster," a bizarre, electric new song that featured Jay-Z, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj and the ghostly folkie Bon Iver.
It's an electric, overpowering song, and Mr. Brice sang it vigorously, even during the scorched parts: "Mama asked me this morning if I'd been by your grave/ But that flag and stone ain't where I feel you anyway".
Small Town Heroes places at its centre The Body Electric, a song that takes the template of the murder ballad – "He shot her down, put her body in the river" – then asks why the killing of women becomes a fit subject for entertainment, "while the whole world sings/ sings it like a song".
Mr. Mellencamp has described his new material as "modern electric folk songs".
