Well the Washington Square gang seemed to have unique in many peoples memories Ron. Obviously I wasn't there, so I don't know.

I remember being in a Cambridge (England ) folk club around 1967. An unaccompanied singer got up and starting slagging off Dylan for stealing our music and sang a pretty rough version of Scarborough Fair.

Then Roy Harper (the guest singer for the night) got up and he said, this is a Bob Dylan song, without whom this folk club would be empty, and harper sang Girl of the North Country, with exquisite guitar picking.

Of course there was folk music right back as far as people can remeber it. And people collected it for nearly as long. And people debated about what was folk music.

However it was only when Dylan lit a fire under it that it became a worldwide phenomenon, a desirable piece of real estate with provincial folkclubs proliferating (and in some cases being sold as thriving businesses) - and that made it something people wanted to argue about and kill for.