I would remind you, Hawk 'n' Cap'n, that it is perfectly valid to not think much of Bob Dylan, still less regard him as a "folk singer."   He's a pop singer (y'know, Number Ones, played a lot on Radio One, cult status and all that) who sings almost all his own songs and hardly any of anyone else's who just happens to play an acoustic guitar sometimes. He's as much a "folk singer" as the Corrs are a "traditional Irish group" (golly gosh, they have a FIDDLE!!).   Not that all that should colour one's views as to his worth or quality, but I reiterate that is OK to not think much of him (without being shot down by his groupies).