well, it says something to me that
many Mudcat members
are staying away, in droves, from this thread.

Me, I could no more ignore Bob Dylan
than I could ignore Lennon or McCartney --
essential to my early formative years.

Along with
Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Jesse Fuller, Cynthia Gooding, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Susan Reed, Theodore Bikel . . .