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Blonde on Blonde gets sixtieth-year reassessment
Abigail Devoe published a long-form July 20 review of Blonde on Blonde, combining memoir, track-by-track criticism, and detailed 1966 recording history. The piece emphasizes Dylan’s shift from troubled New York sessions to Bob Johnston’s Nashville setup in February and March 1966 with Al Kooper, Robbie Robertson, Pig Robbins, Charlie McCoy, Wayne Butler, and other Nashville players. It also ties the album to the 1965–66 electric backlash, the May 17 Manchester show, exhaustion, drug use, and Dylan’s July 29 motorcycle accident.
Why it matters
It is the strongest new full-text item and anchors today’s Dylan discourse in the continuing 1966 anniversary cycle.
Sources & driving stories
ABIGAIL DEVOE · Abigail Devoe
Abigail Devoe coverageUntold Dylan extends Rough and Rowdy source hunt
Tony Attwood’s July 21 Untold Dylan installment, Mother Of Muses part 7, maps late-period Dylan lyrics onto Shakespeare, gospel, blues, Al Green, Muddy Waters, Tampa Red, and Leonard Cohen. The essay links Crossing the Rubicon to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 100, reads Take Me to the River as a bridge into that framework, and interprets travel-and-homecoming language as a restrained Cohen tribute.
Why it matters
It shows continuing active close-reading of Rough and Rowdy Ways as a network of literary and musical references.
Sources & driving stories
UNTOLD DYLAN · Tony Attwood
Untold Dylan coverageBeatles books review foregrounds Dylan connections
Bob Ruggiero’s July 21 Houston Press review covers two Beatles-related books and highlights Dylan-heavy material in Jim Windolf’s Where the Music Had to Go. The review points to Dylan’s admiration for the early Beatles, the August 28, 1964 Delmonico Hotel meeting, Lennon’s You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away as Dylan homage, Dylan’s Fourth Time Around as a later response, and Windolf’s report that the Beatles played around 15 Dylan songs during the Get Back sessions.
Why it matters
The review adds new publication signal around Dylan’s role in Beatles scholarship and the documented feedback loop between the artists.
Sources & driving stories
HOUSTON PRESS · Bob Ruggiero
Houston Press coverageWorth noting
WORTH NOTING
Archival album rumor resurfaced
BabyBlueOnline carries the day’s highest-scoring News-type signal, but the URL path points to a 2009 post and the item is summary-only, so it should be treated as an archival or unverified resurfacing rather than current album news.
WORTH NOTING
Mermaid Avenue reunion noted
Court Carney’s July 21 essay links Woody Guthrie manuscript history to a June 26, 2026 Solid Sound performance by Jeff Tweedy, Billy Bragg, and John Stirratt, while also revisiting Dylan’s 1968 Guthrie tribute appearance after his motorcycle-crash hiatus.
WORTH NOTING
Keith Richards anecdote recirculates
Far Out revisits a 2014 NME interview in which Keith Richards praised Dylan’s lyrical influence while also describing him as abrasive and recalling a pointed Desolation Row-versus-Satisfaction exchange.
Still unclear
OPEN QUESTION
Is the album-rumor item archival or current?
It is labeled News and scores strongly, but the source URL indicates a 2009 context and there is no full-text or corroborating current-source evidence here.
OPEN QUESTION
Will 1966 anniversary coverage keep building?
Multiple items cluster around Blonde on Blonde, the electric-tour backlash, and Manchester 1966, suggesting more anniversary-driven Dylan analysis may follow.