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Bob Dylan’s impact on popular music is incalculable. Being a songwriter, he pioneered a number of different academic institutions of pop songwriting, from confessional vocalist/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness narratives. Like a vocalist, he broke down the idea that a vocalist will need to have a conventionally great voice to …

In later 1962 and early 1963, Bob Dylan produced over twelve recordings at periods administered with the folk mag Broadside. In Oct 1963, three of the music — “John Dark brown,” “Just a Hobo,” and “Speaking Devil” — made an appearance in the Broadside/Folkways compilation LP Broadside Ballads, Vol. 1, …