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

snackeyp,

Yes, great albums both. Different but share that Dylan trademark of awesome closing tracks as on many of his best albums eg, 'It's All Over Now, Baby Blue', 'Desolation Row', 'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands', 'Sara', 'Sugar Baby' etc.

Time Out of Mind is near perfect. 'Not Dark Yet' could break your heart.


rpeluso,

I probably need to give Modern Times a few more spins. Maybe 2001s  Love and Theft had raised my expectations a bit too high. 

I remember I couldn't latch on to any of the songs immediately the way I could with Murder Most Foul, Crossing the Rubicon, Black Rider etc. 

I think I was also listening to at the same time as Morrissey's Ringleader of the Tormentors which was a little more immediate back then. 

Sometimes a good way for me to know if I'm going to like something is to play it in the car a few times. I don't like playing originals in the car so I'll rip a copy especially. 

Still in no rush to hear it.I'm sorry but the reviews here are so so with more bad than good.

Ok i just gave it a listen on you tube.Well ,i feel like i have heard this music before.Will i need this to be burned in .errr more play time.Perhaps ,will i ,i dont think so.Hey i like Dylan always have.Ive seen him in concert .I liked him more in the 70s .I have bought most of his albums but mostly on used cds.Its older Bob,nothing new .Sorry.

He sounds as good as he looks. Period. Old. Tired. Bitter. Still rehashing the Kennedy assassination? Please, I was there too. Let's move on from that sad event. We've lived through it and its aftermath enough times for many years and now he dredges it up again? For what?

Roxy54 - from what I have read Dylan wrote the song ‘Murder Most Foul’ for the Kennedy family as his contribution to their 50 Year Remembrance ceremony of the event (Nov 22, 2013). The song was preformed just for the ceremony and not released to the public as a single until much later (about 7 or 8 months ago). He then saw fit to include it into his latest album we are discussing.

Sorry you do not enjoy reliving history thru music. The song also touches on the other key assassinations of that violent time as well - the death of Martin Luther King  and Bobby Kennedy. It reminds me of the actual impact of ‘Nonviolent Protests’ and how that approach to change America was so effective - as apposed to ANTIFA and their destruction of Seattle and Portland today.

Just my two cents - enjoy the music.