Well, there are MANY links

HOOTIE used a line from a song in I Really Wanna Be With You" or whatever that song is - he used a line from a Dylan song:

"They say I shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy,
She inherited a million bucks and when she died it came to me.
I can't help it if I'm lucky."

Also, Counting Crows' "MR. JONES" is a reference to Ballad of a Thin Man ("Something is happening, and you don't know what it is, DO YOU, MR. JONES!!!!") - and he says "I WANNA BE BOB DYLAN" or something like that.

If you just listen to the voices of most PUNK and GRUNGE there's a lot of BOB in there - that's the VOICE, not just the lyrics---

Wyclef Jean used Bob in his Video "GONE TIL NOVEMBER" and is supposedly thinking of a hip-hop/rap tribute.

Then there's the WALLFLOWERS - Jakob Dylan.

How's about BECK? Thought of as a "new dylan" - and he uses a lot of electronica.

Dylan songs are showing up in all kinds of soundtracks too - a reflection of how his songs are in the minds of today's writers and directors as they think about the soundtrack of people's lives...

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