"We interrupt this broadcast for the following bulletin:
Dylan was/is not a Beat, though there were definitely "beat" influences evident in some of his structure and phrasing. Subterranean Homesick Blues, e.g. He was Folk, Folk/Blues in his earliest years. Think Woody Guthrie, Odetta and Pete Seeger rather than Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Tom Waits.
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