Martin,

You apparently are a singer or you'd have more respect for Dylan's singing... I'll admit that his voice isn't always *on* but when it is, there is a lot of range to it and a lot of interpretational inflections that a lot of run of the mill *pretty* singers can't begin to duplicate.

Yeah, Dylan gets a bad rap from a lot of folks who aren't singers because they just don't happen to like his voice. The two are not the same. Hey, some true singers don't like his voice but know good singing when they hear it... My wife is a good example. She is classically trained, has sung in musicsals on stage, sings and performs solos at a very large perstigious church, teaches music and acknowledges that Dylan can sing, but hates his voice...

Kind have to seperate the two, my friend...

Fir me, I like Dylan's voice and over the last 40 years (ouch...) of my own playing, songwriting and performing, I've taken a lot from from listening to Dylan and still listen to Dylan to this very day...

And it hasn't hurt me one bit, because a member of the Arhie Edawrds Blues Foundation, I'm always asked to lead a couple of songs when we play festivals...

Bobert