Yeah, a bit of an overreach for me personally, and while I prefer Highway 61, either of these or Blonde On Blonde would've been appropriate. As on other selections, I quibble with the certainty of the conclusions of the writers of the piece, but this one's a solid choice. Even if it doesn't say a word about the impact of the three that came before it on the singer-songwriter movement. But then I'm not sure how big guys like James Taylor or Leonard Cohen, or Joni Mitchell for that matter, ever were in the UK.

I personally consider Dylan's contribution to that movement--I'll go so far as to say he's the most important pioneer, if not to offer that he singlehandedly invented it, which is possible but arguable--to represent more of an impact than his rock records on the rock genre. Invented modern rock music? I'm not sure you couldn't say the same of Clapton, Townshend, Hendrix, or the Beatles for that matter, but whatever. There's only so far I'm willing to go in opposition to anything published in this article that makes any sense whatsoever to me, and this one makes quite a bit of sense, even if, again, I quibble with aspects of how it's described & its choice vs. others in the artists' catalog.