Bob Dylan announces first album of new music since 2012

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Bob Dylan announces first album of new music since 2012

 

FILE PHOTO: Singer Bob Dylan performs during a segment honoring Director Martin Scorsese, recipient of the Music+ Film Award, at the 17th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards in Los Angeles January 12, 2012. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni/File Photo

 

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan is releasing his first album of new music in eight years following a spurt of creativity from the man regarded as one of the world's most influential songwriters.

 

"Rough and Rowdy Ways" will be released on June 19, according to a brief announcement on Dylan's official website early on Friday. It will be a double album but no further details were given.

 

The announcement followed the release late on Thursday of a third new song by Dylan - "False Prophet."

 

"I ain't no false prophet, I just know what I know, I go where only the lonely can go," sings Dylan, 78, in the bluesy track.

 

In late March, Dylan surprised fans by releasing a 17-minute song, "Murder Most Foul," inspired by the assassination more than five decades ago of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It also included free wheeling observations about pop culture and multiple song references stretching back to the 1960s, when he burst onto the scene as a folk singer before turning to electric rock music later in the decade.

 

Three weeks later, he released a second song, "I Contain Multitudes."

 

Dylan, who shuns publicity but still tours the world in small venues, gave no details about when the music for the new album was written and recorded.

 

The author of iconic 1960s counterculture songs including "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Like a Rolling Stone," last released an album of original music in 2012 with "Tempest," which featured a tribute to murdered Beatle John Lennon and a 14-minute song about the sinking of the Titanic.

 

His influence has not waned. Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 and his handwritten lyrics to "Like a Rolling Stone" fetched a world record $2 million when they were sold at auction by Sotheby's in New York in 2014.

 

A hand-written page of lyrics for his 1963 song "The Times They Are A-Changin'" is currently up for sale by Los Angeles-based autograph dealers Moments in Time with an asking price of $2.2 million.

 

(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bill Berkrot)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-05-09

 

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[Tarteso]

 

“The day they killed him, someone said to me, ‘Son, the age of the Antichrist has just only begun,'” Dylan sings. “The soul of a nation’s been torn away, and it’s beginning to go into a slow decay.… It’s 36 hours past judgement day.”

In its prayer-like final passages (the song is so structurally daunting that it’s hard to think in terms of verses), Dylan invokes the DJ Wolfman Jack before dropping a long list of songs and musicians, from John Lee Hooker to Guitar Slim to Bud Powell to Stevie Nicks to Don Henley to Dickey Betts to Thelonious Monk, and even mentions Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young.” Oh, and somewhere in there, he nods to Nightmare on Elm Street.

Edited May 9, 2020 by Tarteso

[Just1Voice]

Can anyone name 3 people who give a damn?

[rasmus5150]

Rumor has it that there is a hidden message in the album cover.

 

In the background there is a shadow of a hanged man, and it is supposedly Trump.

 

 

[bendejo]

I tried listening to this new song, after 20 seconds fast-fowarded and found more of same.  Oh well. 

 

Blonde on Blonde was a great album.  There, I ended my post on a positive note.

 

 

Edited May 9, 2020 by bendejo

[bendejo]

10 hours ago, Tarteso said:

In its prayer-like final passages (the song is so structurally daunting that it’s hard to think in terms of verses), Dylan invokes the DJ Wolfman Jack before dropping a long list of songs and musicians, from John Lee Hooker to Guitar Slim to Bud Powell to Stevie Nicks to Don Henley to Dickey Betts to Thelonious Monk, and even mentions Billy Joel’s “Only the Good Die Young.” Oh, and somewhere in there, he nods to Nightmare on Elm Street.

 

Does he mention Phil Ochs and his song "The Crucifixion" ?  I would suspect not.  For more info on his relationship with Ochs do a search on "Ochs dylan taxi"

 

 

 

Also some good covers of this from Ian&Sylvia and Jim&Jean from back in the day.

 

 

Edited May 9, 2020 by bendejo

[MickGC]

21 hours ago, Just1Voice said:

Can anyone name 3 people who give a damn?

Me, my best mate and his sister

[AhFarangJa]

Wow, has he been stoned for 8 years.............

[PumpkinEater]

BD:

"People are crazy and times are strange

I"m locked in tight and out of range

I used to care but, things have changed"

 

Dylan is great

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by PumpkinEater

[Paradise Pete]

1 hour ago, PumpkinEater said:

BD:

"People are crazy and times are strange

I"m locked in tight and out of range

I used to care but, things have changed"

 

Dylan is great

 

More appropriate now than when he wrote it.

[impulse]

7 hours ago, MickGC said:

Me, my best mate and his sister

 

You sure about the sister?

 

[bendejo]

14 hours ago, AhFarangJa said:

Wow, has he been stoned for 8 years.............

When you live in a place where weed is legal...

 

 

Edited May 10, 2020 by bendejo

[CraigInBangkok]

On 5/9/2020 at 5:09 PM, Just1Voice said:

Can anyone name 3 people who give a damn?

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan's manager

Bob Dylan's manger's wife