dick greenhaus: "My question is can anyone identify a song that Dylan rewrote that's any better than the one he got it from?"

Dylan's "Fare Thee Well," a rewrite of "The Leaving of Liverpool" is, in my opinion, superior to the original. I suspect that Pete Seeger and Judy Collins might agree because they chose to record the Dylan rewrite rather than the traditional original.

Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" has much more power, impact and continuing relevancy than "Lord Randall," the traditional ballad on which it is based.

There are many other examples and the value of Dylan's rewrites, in my opinion, do not negate the value of the traditional material.

dick greenhaus: "He hasn't had much to do with folk or trad. music in a long, long time."

That statement just shows that dick greenhaus has not been listening to what Bob Dylan has been dooing in a long, long time. When I saw him perform last month, Dylan did several traditional songs including "Duncan & Brady," (perhaps in tribute to the recently departed Dave Van Ronk).

Just a few years ago, Dylan did two albums of all traditional songs. Many of his recent songs are based on traditional styles and many contain references to traditional songs or characters from traditional songs. Listen to the epic "Tryin' To Get To Heaven" and then tell me that Dylan is not completely engrossed in traditional music.

Long ago, Pete Seeger said that he was wrong about being mad at Dylan for the electric set at Newport 37 years ago. It looks to me that dick greenhaus is among the last holdouts still bearing a grudge.

P.S. Lest anyone think that I am disrespecting dick greenhaus by not capitalizing his name, that is not the case. I am just following the style of how he, himself, presents his name in the above message.