sure Carol....Dylan's a singer/songwriter. He has taken many of the tunes and some words from trad songs (and sometimes not credited anyone but himself BTW). But he also sang songs in the folk genre as he started and certainly many of his are folk-style. At this point, it can be argued too that an awful lot of the songs are either now in or about to enter "folk." Certainly, like it or not, "Blowin' in the Wind" is one. Although he writes some songs about personal experiences, they are generally ones we all share to some degree (read the thread currently running on "Don't Think Twice"), he doesn't often engage in the navel gazing thing like, say, Lisa Loeb...who I like, but though she is often lumped in folk, is not.

As Bill just said, this isn't about likes or dislikes, just what was for many years a term that had meaning.....and of course now, its lost.....probably stolen is a better word.

Spaw