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Bob Dylan - new album just out on Tidal - Rough and Rowdy Ways

Just a heads up. Bob’s new album is out on Tidal today. Just finished my first listen - I am a big fan of Bob Dylan - I consider him the Poet of my generation - at 79 his lyrics tell beautiful stories - IMO. Enjoy the music.

Happy Listening!
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@tomcy6

Sorry, but that’s not what I said. I was saying that Bob’s singing voice had deteriorated to the point where, if he wanted to continue playing in a rock band, he should get someone else to sing.

You just said it again. And you call his current album ‘rock’?, seriously? I don’t hear much of a ‘rock band’ in this album, so perhaps you got your desire. Listening to it, I’m not sure Dylan had any desire to make a ‘rock album’ with this release.

Get someone else to sing? Seriously? Dylan ‘is’ is his voice, his delivery, and his lyrics. Without that, it isn’t Dylan.

You then said that Bob has never wanted to play in a rock band.

I think you are totally missing the point. But no, I don’t think he started writing to be in a ‘rock band’.
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@tomcy6, Crowell is fantastic! The Houston Kid album is in my Top 10 albums of all-time list, an absolute masterpiece. His former father-in-law Johnny Cash makes a guest appearance on one song, the Rockabilly-esque "I Walk The Line (Revisited)". I saw him perform the album at The Roxy in Hollywood at the time of it's release, and the audience was filled with other artists (Dave Alvin was at the table next to me).

The Houston Kid album reminds me of John Hiatt's Bring The Family, in that each started the second phase of their careers with those two albums, producing music far superior to that of their previous work. Rodney spent time serving as Emmylou Harris' rhythm guitarist/harmony singer/bandleader in her Hot Band, a position now filled by the also great Buddy Miller.

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But no, I don’t think he started writing to be in a ‘rock band’.

I don't either.  I think he started writing to emulate his hero, Woody Guthrie.

Enjoy the new album!  I think I've listened to it about as much as I'm going to.
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Sure Elvis went Hollywood and then Vegas which removed some of the hillbilly from rock, but you can't really say it died unless you make some sort of artificial barrier between country and folk music.  Folk music covers a wide range of styles and most white, American rockers started out as folk singers in the late 50s thru 60s.  Even the future psychedelic bands in San Francisco (The Dead, Airplane, Quicksilver, etc.) had strong folk roots.  And let's not forget the whole Bakersfield Sound which contributed that country swinging tonk thing.  If you listen to the critics rock 'n' roll has more sub-genres that western classical music (1600-1905).  It's not true.  If it has a back beat and is played with a certain attitude, then it's probably rock.
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Gentlemen - and I use this term loosely - thank you for a wonderful walk thru the history of ‘our music’ over the last 60 years! Bob is the only song writer to get the Nobel Prize for literature - quite an exclusive club - as far as I am concerned. At 79 - he can write whatever the hell he wants and he can back it up with whatever music he sees to be correct.

He is a national treasure - thank you all for your input. This is why we all spend so much time and energy into our ‘Systems’.

Enjoy the music - 
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