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McGuinn turns 84; Dylan links revisited
Parade's Jacqueline Burt Cote reported July 13 that Roger McGuinn, born July 13, 1942, turned 84. The piece highlights McGuinn persuading the Byrds to record an electric version of Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" in 1965, which became a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit, and notes his later work with Dylan on the Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid soundtrack and the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975 and 1976.
Why it matters
The anniversary coverage re-centers McGuinn's role in carrying Dylan's songwriting into mainstream electric folk rock.
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PARADE · Jacqueline Burt Cote
Parade coverageNew Watchtower essay foregrounds Isaiah 21
A July 14 Ennyman's Territory essay connects Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower" to Isaiah 21:1-10, emphasizing the watchman, horsemen, approaching judgment and the oracle that "Babylon has fallen." The post places the song in a darker late-1960s historical imagination and argues that Jimi Hendrix's recording intensified its apocalyptic atmosphere.
Why it matters
It offers a newly published interpretive frame for one of Dylan's most widely covered songs, while acknowledging uncertainty about direct borrowing.
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ENNYMAN'S TERRITORY
Ennyman's Territory coverageWorth noting
WORTH NOTING
Mother of Muses confabulation reading
Tony Attwood's sixth installment uses Hans Teeuwen's 1995 Hard & Zielig Bible routine as a model for confabulation, arguing that Dylan's lyric blends Mnemosyne, Metis, Athena, the Moirai and Lachesis into a deliberate mythic collage.
Still unclear
OPEN QUESTION
Is today mostly commentary, not news?
The supplied material contains analysis and anniversary coverage, but no new Dylan release, tour, archive, legal or business development.
OPEN QUESTION
How strong is the Isaiah link?
The Watchtower essay identifies close imagery with Isaiah 21, but leaves unresolved whether Dylan consciously borrowed from the passage or absorbed the biblical atmosphere indirectly.