[David Rosenthal]

Originally Posted by Tim Murphy

Thanks for the Phil Ochs, Nick. Memory Lane. I think Dylan is a pretty awful poet, with major exceptions, like Tambourine Man, and this anthem from my youth

Well I sorta thought "Blowin' In the Wind" went without saying. It is a masterpiece of folk song writing. He had many of those. But I agree that the master songwriter was not necessarily the poet he is often cracked up to be. Pound for pound, I'd say Prine is a better poet, by some distance, and Gillian Welch. But that is a topic for another thread I suppose...

David R.