For years, The Bard kind of quietly scoffed at songwriters, preferring to play instead music which had been honed and changed by decades of other's interpretations. The game of Post Office meets non-recorded music sort of thing. Yet these songs had to start from somewhere. Today, with the advent of our various media and recording, I don't think oral tradition carries on at the same kind of pace that it had over the centuries. Too many of us are concerned with sounding like the recording instead of ourselves and this leads of a less-rich listening experience - except of course for all the folks out there inventing new material and new ways to showcase their own talent.

He is still a songwriting skeptic and as skeptical of his own material as that of others. It would be fun to back look at it 100 years from now to see how many of his works survive and what they'd sound like if they did make it that long. That's how one tells if they were any good or not.

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