Well, the Los Angeles Times has asked the question – is a new Bob Dylan album on the way?
And yes there is! It’s called Rough and Rowdy Ways and comes out on June 19th.
Most thought the album was going to be called False Prophet – but that is the new single! Listen here:
The ‘cover’ is based on a macabre, Victorian-style hangman and top-hatted skeleton image on his official twitter account.
The eccentric bard of cool’s Twitter account posted a scary illustration of the skeleton with a needle in its hand …
… the skeleton he’s in the vein, so to speak.
The image looks like a pulp novel from the ’50s with the skeleton’s shadow being a corpse-dangling.
The words False Prophet presides over the image. But the tweet asks a cryptic question: “What are you lookin’ at — there’s nothing to see.”
The idea that Dylan’s new studio album was on its way is backed by the recent surprise releases of two new songs.
The first, a 17-minute song, Murder Most Foul.
The second, a melancholy ballad I Contain Multitudes, features Dylan sighing “I got a tell-tale heart like Mr. Poe / Got skeletons in the walls of people you know,” he sings. “I drink to the truth / And the things we said / I’ll drink to the man who shares your bed.”
Well, one way or the other the travelling troubadour is making waves across the world, not really seen since the 60s and the 70s!
So, fingers crossed and another lockdown breakthrough for ol’ Bob?
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