This Electric Guitar From Bob Dylan’s Newport Set Costs $275,000

Serious collectors may kill to get their hands on this guitar that helped “kill folk music.”

A 1963 Fender Telecaster has popped up for sale at the music-gear marketplace Reverb, with a price tag of $275,000. That number comes courtesy of the instrument’s provenance: It was played by the guitarist Mike Bloomfield during Bob Dylan’s set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, when Dylan infamously opted for an electric guitar rather than acoustic, changing the sound of folk music…