Was Woody Guthrie The Reason for Dylan's Folk Domination?

[@sarahjackson2873]

if you know the first thing about Bob Dylan then you already know he was greatly influanced by Woody and had met him in the early 1960 s , no shock there

[@Carmela-el7fi]

Love bob dylans music and appreciative and that's that

[@fuas710]

love seeing phil ochs in here!

[@twoblindsquirrels37]

thank yall

[@AmplifiedMusicDocs]

Welcome! 🤘

[@janesmith8118]

😊 thanks

[@westonshumaker6231]

Dylan did something great to folk music but it wasn't his song writing. He progressed the genre past the folk revival by introducing electric instruments into the scene. It's hard to say Dylan was a folk musician like Woody. He was more of a commerical pop artist selling folk music as a commodity. The Greenwich scene was also pretty offensive by it appropriation of poor music into urban yuppie music. I think Dylan saw that and by introducing rock elements to his music which truly expressed the change in what those people were really experiencing. Folk music isn't an acoustic guitar it's an art by the people. Still Dylan was not a folk musician he was a pop artist. Woody was true artist of the common people.

[@garrettchristopher3462]

He was and is an amazing songwriter

[@SandfordSmythe]

It is interesting that Pete Seeger didn't like his electrical guitar. But, I heard that the Communist Party of whom he was a member, didn't think his songs appealed to the working class. But who brought protest songs to a whole generation and was acknowledged with Noble Prize?

[@klaytonvonkluge4905]

This is great, thank you! But the mere fact that it's Bob Freaking Dylan should necessitate it be much, much longer than 15 mins - just saying , and of course, just iMO

[@lamper2]

At the first 18 seconds I wanted someone to start singing Sympathy for the Devil lol not for many years would someone.

[@johnnada6855]

BOB DYLAN was a lost teen., he was a spoiled middle class jew that was running away from his family., he is talented but at the start he just wanted to be a "rebel"., so he liked rock n´roll but mostly to be noticed, to be in a "crowd of rebels", the folk and the left was just the next thing for him, when rock n´roll was out of fashion folk was the "hippest" thing, and he jumped in, but in the process he absorved and got hooked into "woody guthrie and the folk hipster scene"., Bob Dylan felt that he "made it" when he got used to New York and his family was again pushing him, so he panic and tried to be a "real artist" so he started to get a real "record deal" and he got it., must say that in Free Wheelin´his talent started to really appear, but the image he created go too big for him, by the time of his Electric stuff he tried to use his fame and become a pop artist and when he achieve it he again was lost and tried to be a Country artist and again got it, i think DYLAN got confortable with himself really after the 90s, after time out of mind, but that´s the story of Dylan, a talented artist that was more motivated by an unclear desire to be a famous artist and by going after that unclear goal his talent florished and he found himself, yes he is talented but also he worked his ass off and had to deal lots of crap from people, no wonder he is a bit of a nut job

[@armchairgeneral576]

well spoken

[@mickdowns4153]

Simplistic tosh from someone who thinks he lives inside another guy's head.

[@brucegoodall3794]

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[@brucegoodall3794]

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