Bob Dylan reaches 80 next year, but there is nothing that indicates that he is knocking on heaven’s door just preliminary, so we are some, who still hope he has a lot more up its sleeve at its cowboydress.
The hope fades with the ’Rough and Rowdy Ways’.
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Dylan is back with his first album consisting of new songs in eight years after three splendid publications with interpretations of gems from the classic american songs.
When the history’s greatest songwriter emits a trilogy of cover plates, one might easily be tempted to believe his source of inspiration had dried out, and the ’Mother of Muses’ from the ’Rough and Rowdy Ways’ proclaims the winner of the Nobel prize in literature, even that he’s ’grown so tired of chasing rhymes’.
however, It is not the lyrics, that sounds tired, but rather the music. It goes with the stick. Or stand still.
Dylan when a new low in its gradually the decades-long use of the blues as the primary focus of his songwriting. The standardized structures limit the genius ‘ expression, and his otherwise fine band appear trapped in stereotypical rundgange and shuffles from the time before rock’n’roll.
Added the accordion tindrer ‘Key West (Philosopher Pirate)’ exceptionally, and there is much needed dynamism in the ’Goodbye Jimmy Reed’, which, however, cannot match the song’s protagonist, and so has Dylan then made yet another tribute to yet another blueslegende.
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Veteranens penchant for namedropping takes the upper hand this time, where he when to mention, among many others, Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley and William Blake, before he comes to the 17-minute-long afslutningsnummer, ’Murder Most Foul’, which lists a cavalcade of personalities in a kind of olympic pastime for Dylan.
He could also just have solved a crossword.
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glimpses Of the hisses Dylan is actually Dylan, but in an often apocalyptic tone to settle he any with to juggle with morbid onelinere and cheerful sprogblomster as a unique artist, who also captivates when ambition is not what they have been.
For master default is ’Rough and Rowdy Ways’ actually a capable poesisamling with a little rumbling in the background, and much more can probably not afford to hope on 57 years after his first of many masterpieces.
the Cover for Bob Dylan’s current ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’, there are the american icons studio album number 39.
