re: #1052 Cato the Elder

Thanks for this opportunity to smack you upside the head with the objective, irrefutable truth that Bob Dylan is the greatest singer-poet of his or most other generations, with a song catalogue you could choke a buffalo with, a vast and irreplaceable knowledge of American music, a Biblical repertoire that James Joyce would envy, a heart as bit as the Ritz, a mind as wide as the Mississippi, a repertoire as deep as the Mariana Trench, and the best up-down note ever blown on a blues harp.

And if he was good enough for Johnny Cash, he’s good enough for anyone but you.

Suck on this:

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You defend atrocity with more atrocity.

I agree his work could choke a buffalo, but it could also choke a buzzard and a starving hyena. I hate to break it to you, but American music pre-1959 includes lots and lots more than Woody Guthrie. Ritz is a red herring, and dear Christ, if you think Bob Dylan’s repertoire was “deep”, and especially if you think there is any virtue at all in the harmonica (save for use in enhanced interrogations), then I fear there is no help for you.