Greg I don't want to go over old ground. I think we see Dylan from different perspectives, you tend to appreciate his guitar playing but I look at him as a composer and the more I read (have read) the more I'm disappointed. This wheels' on fire, tune by Rick Danko with whom he co-wrote the chorus .. he copied Paul Clayton's Who's goin' to buy you ribbons when I'm gone (It's no use to sit and wonder why, babe)which resulted in a law suit..Masters of War written to Nottamun Town....Farewell Angeline...Fareweel tae Tarwathie....etc, etc. He was and is a unique person musically but I'll always see him as a bit of a phoney with a great PR.
And by the way, Paul Robeson was a great favourite in my house in Scotland as my dad had all his records, old 78s on our wind-up gramophone! ...Those were great Saturday nights before the telly.. but that's another story.