All good points @ghosthouse. The purist Folkies didn't know it, but in High School Dylan played in a Rock 'n' Roll band, doing Little Richard type material. He had ambitions far beyond Folk music itself, using the genre as his launching pad due to it's current cultural significance.
When Dylan spent all of 1967 tutoring The Hawks on American music (which they already had a good working knowledge of) in the Big Pink house basement, he displayed his vast familiarity with music in ALL genres.
@tomic601, the Gary Smith Blues Band album came out on Messaround Records in '91, and can be found on Amazon. Well worth looking for, trust me!
