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Re: Donovan (no KT Kontent)

From: "G. Jeffrey Gower" <jgower@mtholyoke.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:34:53 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Donovan (no KT Kontent)
To: R.Jones@mirinz.org.nz
cc: love-hounds@uunet.uu.net
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996 R.Jones@mirinz.org.nz wrote:
>      are you guys sure Donovan isn't a Dylan clone? Surely 'Catch the Wind' 
>      is merely a reworded version of Dylan's 'Chimes of Freedom'?

When he started out, he was more of a Dylanesque folkie than he was later 
on.  Yeah, he played folk music on an acoustic guitar, etc., but I never 
thought he really sounded like Dylan at all - definitely no "clone" of 
Dylan.  I think folks did him a disservice by calling him that.

Jeff