The framing has sharpened from a general reassessment of Dylan’s later career into a more specific archival and textual argument centered on how late-period songs were assembled. The current version also adds a new angle: public archive access through Mixing Up the Medicine, while emphasizing that it still cannot replace direct archival research.

The updated version sharpens the framing around Dylan’s late career by centering specific albums and making the interpretive dispute more explicit. It also adds named critics and clarifies that the archive evidence is now tied directly to the Tulsa material.