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Metalize them.  Acoustic metal folk.  You could be a genre progenitor. 

That reminds me, I heard a guy's music in a pub that I think you'd like.  I should have paid him an extra $10 and picked up two of his CD's so I could send one to you.  I didn't think that fast at the pub.

Congratulations.  Our mutual friend Sawyer became a grandfather this week.  If you've got some back channel way to reach him, he'd probably love to hear from you.

I love the creepy monster photo.  I would not have thought of a beatnik style approach to that song, but that's what makes this experiment cool.  I enjoyed hearing the different take on the song.

I recorded another version of Dont' Think Twice It's Alright, but this time tried to sing on key and maybe pick a consistent tempo. 

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I recorded a full version of City of New Orleans.  I ran out of breath a few times.  Sorry Bill. 

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I was mostly on key, which is an improvement.

The hole in Willie Nelson's guitar is not from using a pick.  It is from a fire.  It has probably been expanded by using a pick.  He must have really liked that guitar going back into a burning building for it.

I left a message on Soundcloud - but to add to that, I'd like to say that your singing was on-key, and that's more than a whole lot of recording artists are doing these days.  Do you think auto-tune just happened?  Heck no!  Too many people needed a computer to be on key.  Not you.  You've got it.

I really liked your use of triplets.

What I liked about 50's, 60's and 70's songs are that the radio stations and marketing agents hadn't done such a refined job of segmenting music.  You could get songs and groups that don't fit anywhere.  Chicago is a good example.  Are the jazz?  Are they rock?  Are they funk?  Are they pop?  The simple answer is "Yes."  Once pop got more and more refined, Chicago proceeded to suck more and more as they set about fitting into the genre.  Johnny Cash is another example.  He's in the Country and the Rock and Roll halls of fame.  Dylan too was folk, pop, and rock all at once.  Now, if you aren't formula, you'd better have a darned good internet marketing campaign.

Dylan did get to spend some time with Woodie Guthrie, shortly before Woodie died.  Ramblin' Jack Elliott had spend years with Woodie, taking care of him on the road and learning everything he could.  But Dylan took off huge, and at some point a reporter interviewing Ramblin' Jack Elliott asked him how he had learned to sound like Dylan so quickly after Dylan success had got going.  Ramblin' Jack Elliott told the reporter that he had sounded like Dylan for twenty years, and Dylan had only been playing for two or three, and then left the reporter to do the math. 

Anyway, I knew the Ramblin' Jack Elliott version of Don't Think Twice It's Alright long before I knew it was a Dylan song, so I guess with one person at least he got his revenge.

But I said it was too much responsibility.

OK, so let's do another Dylan - "Don't Think Twice It's Alright."