It changed folk forever - and influenced rock by moving (some) folk into the rock genre. I'd say that's monumental.
I haven't done anything that has changed music that much. Not even close.
Folk music is still folk music though. They play the same songs
Now they have electrical instruments (some of them) and backing bands. That was unknown at the time. It also meant more folk entered what we'd call rock n roll. Hell, name one person you know who doesn't know who Bob Dylan is. Even your kids know who he is.
That's a huge change. There's a reason so many people cover Dylan songs. He was that influential. Also, anyone can cover a Dylan song and make it better than the original! (I kid... I kid...)
It's possibly a bigger singular change from one person than has ever been accomplished in music. It might be on par with how the Beatles changed rock fandom. They didn't change rock so much as they changed how fans interacted - a change that lasted a decade, and influenced the fandom even longer.
It's not like Dylan was using distortion pedal and cranking that folk into something completely unrecognizable
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