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 - Highway 61 Revisited - White Vinyl - Sealed - French - vinyl LP - £29.99, $38.09, €35.09 (New Item) (arrived 18-Mar-2024 17:10)on March 19, 2024 at 8:15 am
BOB DYLAN Highway 61 Revisited (2017 French 'Edition Limitee' FNAC Exclusivite issue of his 1965 9-track MONO LP pressed on White Vinyl, including the singles Like A Rolling Stone, From A Buick 6, Queen Jane Approximately and the title track. Complete with a download code voucher, the vinyl is UNPLAYED housed in the picture sleeve which remains sealed within its factory shrinkwrap) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Bob Dylan - Infidels + insert - UK - vinyl LP - £12.00, $15.24, €14.04 (New Item) (arrived 16-Mar-2024 16:02)on March 19, 2024 at 8:15 am
BOB DYLAN Infidels (1983 UK 8-track vinyl LP which saw Dylan trying something very different with Sly & Robbie on Engine Room duties and Mick Taylor & Mark Knopfler on Guitars, complete with illustrated catalogue/credits inner, lyric insert and picture sleeve. The sleeve displays some mild shelfwear & the vinyl shows a few light signs of play)
- Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded - UK - vinyl LP - £15.00, $19.05, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 14-Mar-2024 14:24)on March 19, 2024 at 8:15 am
BOB DYLAN Knocked Out Loaded (1986 UK 8-track LP, featuring collaborations with Tom Petty, Sam Shepard & Carole Bayer-Sager, picture sleeve with illustrated credits inner. The sleeve has a little light edgewear and the inner has some minor foxing, whilst the vinyl is Excellent and appears barely played CBS86326)
- Bob Dylan - Shadows In The Night - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.75, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 14-Mar-2024 14:28)on March 19, 2024 at 8:15 am
BOB DYLAN Shadows In The Night (2015 UK 10-track audiophile LP pressed on 180gm Vinyl, complete with tracklisting inner, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows minimal shelfwear & the vinyl has a few spindlemarks that indicate previous play)
- Bob Dylan - Before The Flood - Graduated Orange Label - UK - 2-LP vinyl set - £15.00, $19.05, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 15-Mar-2024 11:47)on March 19, 2024 at 8:15 am
BOB DYLAN & THE BAND Before The Flood (Late 70s UK issue of the 1974 21-track double live LP on graduated orange labels, gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows some general wear & the vinyl appears barely played CBS22137)
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