In Brief

One great perk of being Bob Dylan is that you get birthday cards that beat Hallmark all to pieces. Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Spider John Koerner, Eliza Gilkyson, Lucy Kaplansky and Martin Simpson are among the well-wishers revisiting a baker’s dozen of Dylan songs familiar and obscure and mostly from the ‘60s, emphasizing his gifts as a narrative storyteller and poet staunchly in the folk tradition more than his role in rock as a political provocateur .