Talking blues, and many other forms of spoken word over music, go back LONG before Bob "pretender to the throne" Dylan.

I'm not even sure what category I'd put him in. Folky pop? Fop? Polk? Surely a great songwriter at times, but spotty even there, and don't even get me started about his so-called voice. If he's king of anything, it's of his own ego.

Alex