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Originally Posted by Crowquill
Bob Dylan is an okay lyricist and not nearly as good as people hype him up to be. I really hate to compare Conor Oberst and Bob Dylan since that happens enough, but the lyrics on Letting Off the Happiness were better then any Dylan i've heard and he released that when he was 18 and the album he put out when he was twenty Fevers and Mirrors is also better lyrically then anything i've heard by Dylan, and i've heard alot. Plus Bright Eyes was way more original and dynamic when he came out then Dylan, who just ripped off older folk artists.
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Folk isn't meant to be original. Since folk is based on old art concepts of recreation rather than originality.
It can of course and growth is good but originality just isn't one of the check points to a good folk artists.
My problem with Dylan is people before him did it better but everyone knows Dylan's name.