From: llucier@shaw.ca   
      
   Wayne Harrison wrote:   
   >   
   > "Cathy Cowette"  wrote >   
   > > I guess it's all a matter of taste. I love both Paul and Bob, but when I   
   > > really want to relax and just absorb some music, 9 times out of 10, it's   
   > > Lightfoot I choose. I did listen to BOTW today, though.   
   > >   
   >   
   >     agreed.  but regarding the dylan/simon comparison, it's apples and   
   > oranges, to a great degree.  bob dylan is the fountain from which all   
   > singer/songwriter efforts of the late twentieth century flowed.   
      
   Without the influences of the blues, country, folk, bluegrass and   
   even before them major contributions from various ethic music   
   backgrounds, Bob Dylan as we know him would never have existed.   
   A very talented songwriter indeed but his career got a big boost   
   due to the times in which he emerged as a protest songwriter   
   which was just an extension of the path taken by earlier protest   
   songwriters such as Woody Gutherie.   
      
      
   >  without   
   > him, there would have been no morphing of the beatles from "i luv u, yeah,   
   > yeah" to the vast majority of their timeless works.  without him, joni   
   > mitchell never happens.   
      
   Hmmmmm......Joni Mitchell is pretty small potatoes in this   
   aspect, IMHO.   
      
      
   >  those two factors alone make him the most important   
   > voice of our time.  add to those two elton john and csn&y, and their   
   > seperate efforts, and you begin to understand his impact.   
   >   
   >      simon, othoh, has a beautiful, though delicate, voice; and is a   
   > wonderful guitar player.  he wrote some marvelous songs.  but again, without   
   > dylan, he doesn't have a chance to hit the mainstream.   
      
   Can't really say I agree with you on this point either.  :-)   
      
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