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And yet Dylan's vocal delivery is still very good in its way. It seems very personal and authentic.

If you listen to early 70s Dylan (his tracks on Concert for Bangladesh come to mind) he sounds a bit better vocally in that period. I read that it was because he quit smoking.

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You can listen to tapes from his teenage years in the late 50s, where he's singing in almost that exact early 70s croon. But his voice throughout most of the 60s was very different and, for the most part, intentionally so.

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