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For me, it's all about his work and the music, and that's where I like to hunt and look for things - what's going on in his lyrics, what's in Bob Dylan's record collection, what's on his bookshelf, what is he listening to?
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That's something that has continued - that folk process, the folk tradition - through all of Bob Dylan's work.
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In Ritter's half-sung, half-spoken vocals and unlikely first-person songs, Bob Dylan's influence shines through, as in the nearly 10-minute "Thin Blue Flame, " but Ritter is far less sardonic and more likely to pull back for a wider view of the way the world's injustices meet up with its beauty.
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