I'm a true-blue Dylan fan, and have been since the late 1967 or so when I became old enough to appreciate his work and feel that his latest album, released when

I'm a true-blue Dylan fan, and have been since the late 1967 or so when I became old enough to appreciate his work and feel that his latest album, released when he was almost 80, is one of his greatest works. But I love his folk and protest songs even though I wasn't old enough when thhe originally came out. When I first learned guitar at age 11 in '67 I played "The Times They Are A-Changin'" etc. Looking back, the protest era was a very short period in Dylan's career, a few years at the very start, over by 1966, and the author's obsession with it is revealing only of the author. In Dylan's lifetime work, it's a very minor piece, even though some people never got past it. Other themes loom far larger.