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 - The Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956-1966 - UK - book - £35.00, $43.75, €39.20 (New Item) (arrived 09-Jul-2020 15:11)on July 9, 2020 at 6:19 pm
BOB DYLAN The Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956-1966 (2005 UK 64-page hardback book, a magnificent volume giving insight into one of Dylans most eventful decades. Housed in a hard-cover slipcase, it includes interviews, archive photos, reproductions ofhandwritten song lyrics & other rare items, with removable reproductions of the programme from Dylans first concert at Carnegie Chapter Hall, along with a Bonus 45 minute CD which includes early interviews, a radio appearance on OscarBrand's Folk Song Festival & interviews recorded in 2004 for the 'No Direction Home' documentary)
- Bob Dylan - Trouble No More (The Bootleg Series Vol.13 / 1979-1981) - UK - cd album box set - £75.00, $93.75, €84.00 (New Item) (arrived 09-Jul-2020 15:06)on July 9, 2020 at 6:19 pm
BOB DYLAN Trouble No More (The Bootleg Series Vol.13 / 1979-1981) (Limited Deluxe Edition 2017 UK Nine Disc [8CD/1DVD] box set, featuring previously unreleased material, includes a hardcover book featuring an introduction by Dylan scholar BenRollins with liner notes by Amanda Petrusich, Rob Bowman and Penn Jillette. Includes the bonus 'Trouble No More: A Musical Film' DVD, a feature-length cinematic presentation combining unreleased footage from Dylan’s 1980 tours with new materialwritten by Luc Sante and performed by Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon. Directed by Jennifer Lebeau, with bonus material including a rare performance of Shot of Love from Avignon 1981 and more. Comes housed in a special deluxe hardback pocket book with, and an additional 120-page deluxe-bound book containing rare & unseen photographs memorabilia, with both parts housed inside a custom slipcase box. Beautifully put together & highly recommended)
- Bob Dylan - More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol.14 Deluxe Edition - UK - cd album box set - £75.00, $93.75, €84.00 (New Item) (arrived 09-Jul-2020 15:05)on July 9, 2020 at 6:19 pm
BOB DYLAN More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol.14 Deluxe Edition (2018 UK 87-track 6-CD box set, the definitive chronicle of Dylan's legendary 'break-up' album, featuring the early 'withdrawn' version of the album alongisde every salvageable recording from the tapes, meticulously restored for the first time from the original master tapes. Comes housed in a special deluxe hardback pocket book withforty pages of historic notes & an additional 120-page deluxe-bound book containing rare & unseen photographs memorabilia, with both parts housed inside a slipcase box. Although not sealed, this example remains in a 'near as new' condition. Beautifully put together & highly recommended)
- Bob Dylan - The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia + CD - UK - book - £45.00, $56.25, €50.40 (New Item) (arrived 09-Jul-2020 11:33)on July 9, 2020 at 6:19 pm
MICHAEL GRAY The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (Fantastic 2006 leather bound 736-page Bible of Bob, packed with all the details, facts, figures, figurines, figurations, figs, fings & whatchamacallits. You name it, if it concerns Bob Dylan, it will be covered somewhere in this book. The entire book is grouped Alphabetically, making it easy to use as a reference book yet still just as easy to read as a selection of interesting articles about the world of Bob Dylan. The leather front of the book is embossed with a great silver silhouette of Bob and just to make life even easier, there is even a CD-ROM containing the entire book as a searchable PDF, mounted inside the back cover - An incredible work!)
- Bob Dylan - The Original Mono Recordings - UK - cd album box set - £85.00, $106.25, €95.20 (New Item) (arrived 09-Jul-2020 10:29)on July 9, 2020 at 6:19 pm
BOB DYLAN The Original Mono Recordings (2010 UK Deluxe Edition 8-CD album set - 'The Original Mono Recordings' collects Bob Dylan's first records as he mixed them and as they were originally meant to be heard – in mono. The box set features his first eight albums from 1962's Bob Dylan to 1968's John Wesley Harding. Comprises 'Bob Dylan', 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan', 'The Times They Are A-Changin'', 'Another Side Of Bob Dylan,' 'Bringing It All Back Home', 'Highway 61 Revisited', 'Blonde On Blonde' & 'John Wesley Harding'. These mono-version albums have never been available on CD and will not be released individually. Presented in individual card picture sleeves and housed in a superb deluxe outer picture slipcase complete with a 60-page book with new photos, album information and liner notes from eminent rock historian Greil Marcus. The box shows just the lightest of wear and the contents are in 'as new' condition)
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