1. The sale of Bob Dylan's massive catalogue of 6,000 songs to Universal Music is a reminder of his towering impact not just as a singer but also as songwriter. Next to the Beatles, no other modern songwriter has been so frequently covered.
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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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And, at the same time, his timing is so weird that no one can cover him right, so that you get a long series of people with better voices and technique sure they can do that song better and failing, leaving space for someone new to try.
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Something he shares with Neil Young.
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