Bob dylan beyond a shadow of doubt11/17/2023 It’s interesting in retrospect to most Dylan openers, which are upbeat and roaring. ![]() Smothered with weeping, country influenced steel guitars, atop of some beautiful flamenco acoustic playing. Opener, ‘I Contain Multitudes’ is a melancholic, minimalistic track. I wouldn’t be surprised if Dylan knows this is his swan song. He has seen it all at 79, admitting modestly ‘ I’ve outlived my life by far’ and ‘ I sleep with life and death in the same bed‘. Often tackling mortality in his withered croon. Dylan however spends time musing on heavy topics. Some of his contempories have gone off their rockers by now, following trends and writing simplistic songs. He works with sounds of the past, made to be the playlist for shots of bourbon in a dimly lit 1am room. Dylan, a true original, plays to his own strengths and rules on Rowdy. A controversial award with him being a songwriter. In which the expectation of a new, Dylan penned release has been raised following his win of the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2016. ‘ Rough and Rowdy Ways’ is the long awaited 39th studio album from Bob Dylan. This is a revelation to me – though probably trifling to you. Just uncropped, revealing a hunchback figure leaning over a jukebox. Today I noticed the cover sleeve on the new Bob Dylan album has the same image. Reading upon it I found that Berry had to leave shortly after because people started lobbing beer bottles at him. The book cover was a striking, dated shot of a couple dancing, taken by Ian Berry in 1964. There was no price on it but I think I copped it for about 50 pence. Found on the floor, torn to bits and pleading for adoption. ![]() I copped it in a junk shop in Manchester, cheap as chips. Some kitchen sink novel about northern England in the 1950s. I have a book on my shelf by John Braine.
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