Last night I watched Part One of the PBS Bob Dylan specials. I enjoyed it very much. So much, in fact, that I'm going to skip going to music tonight so I can watch Part Two.

I'm not sure why or how but I somehow missed Bob Dylan all these years. Of course I knew of his existence and knew some - a very few - of his songs. And of course I had seen some people mock his delivery. But I had not ever watched him perfom.

In the last couple of years some of his songs have been done in the music circles I move in, notably by Buddy Tabor. Dylan was one of Buddy's early inspirations.

I'm ready to agree with Little Hawk. Bob Dylan is a genius.