“That was when his songs started speaking to what the freak on the street was experiencing.” The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia on the classic Bob Dylan song that made him a convert

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Bob Dylan’s transformation from acoustic folk singer to electric folk-rocker dismayed his hardcore folk fans in 1965. Ironically, it was when Dylan went electric that Garcia and his Grateful Dead bandmates — then performing as the Warlocks — took notice of him. Dylan and the Dead would tour together in 1987, during which time they performed the song live. “It had always been one of my favorites, ‘Baby Blue’… It was one of the songs I used to sing back in high school. “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” is considered one of the greatest kiss-off songs ever written, a parting of the ways with no chance of reconciliation.