There is no reason good projection and articulation need to sound like an artifice or an affectation. They are natural concomitants of intending to communicate. They make a song a delight instead of a mystery or an emotional self-indulgent bouillabaise. They make listeners a lot happier than swallowed, mumbled terms. Dylan cuts usually have very understandable words even when the singing is terrible, and he makes out all right.




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