Henry's voice is miles away from Dylan's piercing nasal howl and Belafonte's clear, powerful signal, but all of them take you into a kind of confidence. But in writing about a predecessor who attained huge popularity, he focuses on Belafonte: "Harry was the best balladeer in the land and everybody knew it....He had ideals and made you feel you're part of the human race. Belafonte's career provided still another parallel to Dylan's: he was pilloried by some for his lack of faithfulness to certain ideas of what constituted folk music.