Tambourine Man had one foot deeply rooted in folk and another slightly in rock n’ roll’, where in 1965 they delivered Turn! Turn! Turn!, an album fully steeped in the more folkish side of folk-rock, at a time when The Beatles released their dynamic album Rubber Soul and The Rolling Stones had just dropped Aftermath on the world … yet The Byrds where still defining themselves as some sort of Johnny-come-lately version of Bob Dylan. ![]() Roger McGuinn collaborated with Vern Gosdin on Parton’s 1984 version.A band on their way to somewhere … yet never arrived anywhere. The latter actually covered it twice, in 1984 as well as in 2005. Other artists who have covered this song include Nina Simone (1969) and Dolly Parton. It was actually Roger (aka Jim) McGuinn’s idea that The Byrds should take a crack at “Turn! Turn! Turn!”. This was after he was already involved in the recording of The Limeliters’ original, as well as working more directly on Judy Collins’ cover which was assembled prior to that of The Byrds, which came out in 1963.
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