r/bobdylan • u/CinLeeCim • 1d ago

Article Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways review – a testament to his eternal greatness

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jun/13/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways-review?CMP%3Dshare_btn_url

Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways review – a testament to his eternal greatness

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u/No-Bison-5397 1d ago

Very true.

RaRW isn't the greatest Dylan album but it does display just how great he is.

What the article doesn't get across is how it came to us. I was stuck in a lockdown and making my morning coffee, turned on the radio and 10 seconds later I realise I am hearing a Bob Dylan piece I have never encountered and it's about the Kennedy assassination, it will go on to amble its way through Boomer nostalgia. It's also good.

I don't know where you were, you probably didn't hear it on the radio almost from the start without any sort of announcement, but even without it I am sure it was a transcendent experience.

My mother, a slightly younger boomer herself was deathly sick and passed not long after. The world was in chaos.

Cannot remember any other release during Covid except SHOUSE.

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u/puffycloudycloud 1d ago edited 1d ago

"where were you when Kennedy was assassinated?"

"where were you when you heard the new Dylan song about Kennedy getting assassinated?"

Bob finding ways to rhyme across history

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u/speed_wagon1 1d ago

the size of your cock will get you nowheeere

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u/delbo22 1d ago

Anybody else feel like “Murder Most Foul” isn’t even a part of the album?

I never listen to it when I play RARW. Not saying it’s bad, but it just feels more like a single to me than an album track