Somebody mentioned Donovan. He did a lot of great folk-rock, specially around the time of "Sunshine Superman".

The Beatles and the Stones also did some great folk-rock numbers here and there. They were both influenced by Dylan, and he was certainly influenced by the Beatles too...he particularly admired their ability with chord structures, and ended up collaborating with George Harrison on numerous occasions right up through the Traveling Wilburys albums.

Among the Beatles, Lennon was probably the biggest Dylan admirer at first, but later went off into other areas, declaring "I don't believe in Zimmerman..." in that one song. He was consciously demolishing his former idols, just as Dylan did when he let go of his former idolization of Woody Guthrie and forged his own unique identity instead (around about 1964-65).

I also agree that CCR qualify as pretty good folk-rock on occasions. Funny how it was an almost totally male preserve back then, for bands at least, if not for singer-songwriters. My, how times have changed.

Even at the time (in the 60's), at least half of my favourite musical performers were women (Joan Baez, Buffy Saint-Marie, Judy Collins, Sylvia Tyson, Joni Mitchell), Grace Slick)...but of those only Slick was in what you could term a "band", in the usual sense of the word.

In more recent times, I'll add Emmy Lou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Tish Hinojosa onto that list too.

Big Mick has the same sometime reservations about Paul Simon as I do (Kodachrome...yuck!), but when he's good he's really good.

Did anyone catch the tour he did with Dylan a few years ago? That must have been a treat to see.

- LH