From the NME.
Bob Dylan‘s new album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ has debuted at number two on the US Billboard charts, setting a new record in the process.
It’s Dylan’s 23rd Top 10 album, and his 50th to get a Top 40 position. As the new record states, the legendary singer/songwriter now has Top 40 albums in the last seven decades – eight in the 1960s, 14 in the ’70s, seven in the ’80s, four in the ’90s, seven in the ’00s, nine in the 2010s, and now his first in the 2020s.
In the UK, meanwhile, Dylan’s new album took the top spot, followed at No. 2 by Neil Young’s “lost” 1975 album ‘Homegrown’.
Giving ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ a five-star review before its release, NME wrote: “The roots of the erosion of US democracy plays out against a backdrop of counter-culture revolution. Between flickering scenes from Dealey Plaza and Parkland hospital, Dylan widens the shot to take in the birth of rock’n’roll, The Beatles, Woodstock and Altamont, before unleashed a bombardment of musical, cinematic and social references stretching the entire 20th Century, like ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ grew up and got a degree.
“Bluesmen, silent movie clowns, soul queens, jazz greats, rockers, hippies and pin-ups – Dylan revels in a hundred years of creative progress as if in accusation of America’s immutable ideological savagery. JFK, he’s saying, was just the highest profile, on-camera bloodstain to be splashed across the stars and stripes.”
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BOB DYLAN Street Legal (1978 UK first press 9-track LP on the graduated orange label, complete with picture inner, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just a little light shelf/edgewear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs ofplay)
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BOB DYLAN Desire (1975 UK first issue 9-track LP, a great mid seventies longplayer from Mr Zimmerman, including the full eight minute version of Hurricane, complete with illustrated credits inner, picture sleeve with 'CBS 86003' on front. Thesleeve shows minimal shelfwear and the vinyl looks barely played CBS86003)
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BOB DYLAN Himself (Original 1965 UK 36-page songbook published by Duchess Music & featuring the words & music to 13 tracks arranged for guitar & vocal. The cover shows some edge and spinewear while the inner pages remain in fine condition)
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BOB DYLAN Bob Dylan New Morning (Original 1970 UK 68-page songbook published by Big Sky Music & featuring the words & music to 12 tracks from the New Morning album. The cover has some general age-related wear and foxing while all inner pages remain in superb condition)
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