Be sure to take a look at the Roots of Bob Dylan page, by the estimable Manfred Helfert. Manfred's sites are always fascinating.

I suppose this and the McCartney "lifted lyrics" threads are meant to expose this sort of plagiarism as controversial. It's too bad that music has become such big business. If it weren't for the money involved, people would think it a wonderful thing to take a song and build on it. Isn't that what we call the folk process? Isn't that what built our culture, before our culture became something to be marketed?

-Joe Offer-