[Michael.SF.]

why this makes him greater than his contemporaries who possessed equal skill at writing

I would be curious to know who would you consider to be his equal in terms of song writing skills?

[dmz]

I would be curious to know who would you consider to be his equal in terms of song writing skills?
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I have a bootleg Arlo Guthrie recording on which he talks about Dylan and songwriting. Compares it to fishing. And Dylan is almost always upstream from everybody else.