2. When he started out, Dylan's folk music was often set in contrast to the commercial music coming out Tin Pan Alley, but in retrospect he was the heir to that tradition, a composer not for himself for the community of singers.
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3. Dylan's own quirky voice & persona has something to do with how widely covered he's been: lacking slickness & polish, his voice invites emulation: it suggests that there is no definitive version of a song & anyone can take it up.
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4. In the early 20th century the songsters of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley (Gershwin & company) created the canon now called The Great American Songbook. Dylan's 600 songs deserve to be seen as the Second Great American Songbook. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dylan-sold-catalogue-songbook/ …
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The Kingsmen
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He's also like 80 lol
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It's 600, not 6,000.
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no there’s just 5,401 copies of Must be Santa
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Unfortunately, as usual The Alt Right Wing on Social Media are saying he is a Sellout...due to his old Hippie Ways...
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And now we get to hear Dylan hawking cars and meds from Union-busting companies.
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