Bob Dylan - My Rough and Rowdy Ways /2020) Anticipation and Discussion Thread

Apple and Mills are having a hell of a year huh

well there's piano on "murder most foul", just whoever played it wasn't part of the core band presumably

Just realized Garnier's been with Dylan for 31 years...or, more than half of Dylan's career.

Bob Britt was killing it when I saw him in the fall as was Matt Chamberlain.

so hyped that chamberlain is on the record

I saw Charlie Sexton play with Dylan 20 years ago! Great guitarist.

That early 2000s band with Larry Campbell and Charlie Sexton on guitar was the best.

Love & Theft was the best

i'm so hyped for this record!!!!

yeah, me too. bob fuckin dylan!

is this not being released on vinyl?

and if not, because of that Apollo plant fire? I want this record!

it's on vinyl, double album

hrm I looked at Bull Moose and then Amazon and don't see it

https://bobdylanstore.com/products/rough-and-rowdy-ways-2lp-digital-album

shrewd move bobby

weird I have it pre-ordered from Amazon now it's not showing up as an option

wonder if they just sold through the stock they were getting?

yeah i saw the LP on amazon at some point. i buy new dylan albums on CD, though, I'm a weirdo.

I could see this new one posting pretty huge vinyl sales

lol this album

The usual latter-day admixture of brazen and brain-dead.

yeah i saw the LP on amazon at some point. i buy new dylan albums on CD, though, I'm a weirdo.

same

pre-ordered the CD via Amoeba last night!

i would buy the vinyl but i can't get over the godfuckingawfulness of the cover

i mean, the inner gatefold image is pretty crap too but it's 10000x better

yeah i saw the LP on amazon at some point. i buy new dylan albums on CD, though, I'm a weirdo.

― tylerw, Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:07 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I too buy Dylan albums on CD, but less because I'm a weirdo and more because my Tempest LP was, "Hm, lots of sibilance on only this one track." "The pitch is wavering...yep, it's off-center." "Oh, cool, more sibilance, but only on one part of this other track." "Why is it crackly as fuck near the end of one track in the middle of the side?" etc. etc.

i mean, CDs are GOOD. also, the new Dylan on CD is like $20 cheaper.

Yeah, I'll probably spring for the CD. If it's cut from a PCM digital master and they're more or less using the same amount of compression, it makes more sense to me to buy a CD for the fraction of the price.

So excited! I ordered the LP but it doesn't ship until July--very strange. I want to have a listening party at my apartment this Friday night, but with the pandemic I guess it will be a listening party of one, which is probably appropriate for this album. I will channel Dylan's loner aesthetic.

ordered a vinyl copy too, but for my future brother in law.

where can i stream this? i know you critic guys have a hookup

Guys, I got a pretty big dilemma, normally with any new Bob Dylan release (which only come out before Xmas or Father's Day or my dad's birthday) I purchase a copy to give to my father, who rips it to his computer and then returns to me the now worthless to him physical cds.

(Sidenote: he has not respect for the physical media & packaging I swear he let the dog tear into a couple of those sleeved boxes)

Normally I would purchase this album no prob from him BUT, he's pretty on top of this new album, he texted me about the advance songs and I think he knows/understands streaming now and obv between being retired & COVID he has nothing but time on his hands, so do I get a copy for him for Father's Day or do I just get one for myself and tell him to "find on the 'net"?

buy him Neil's Homegrown. that's what I did for my pops.

I'm more excited for this (and dug the advance tracks more) than my own dad.

So we all know that the title of the album doesn't contain the word "My", right?

stadows tho

I'm looking forward to this more than Homegrown. I think I'm a bit Neil-weary. That last Crazy Horse album did it.

I like false prophet a lot, really enjoy the guitar playing

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways/

good review

Yeah - love Sodomsky. Terrific closing sentences.

crazy serendipity getting this album and the new bridgers in the same week and they're both bananas good

good interview:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/arts/music/bob-dylan-rough-and-rowdy-ways.html

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, June 12, 2020 5:30 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Love how he refers to Indiana Jones as 'Indy'

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Qca6cGsGL._SX355_.jpg

lol

https://a10.gaanacdn.com/gn_img/albums/Oxd3xzPbgV/xd3xzDEDbg/size_xxl.webp

A slightly better version ^^

Where did the art originate?

had a great time listening to this this morning. 'multitudes' and 'murder' are probably still the best tracks, but 'key west' and 'rubicon' are on that level too

"i've made up my mind to give myself to you" is amazing

I'm enjoying this this morning, too. My daughter walked into the room and told me it sounded like the songs from "Phineas and Ferb" (who I'm sure had at least one fake Dylan song).

Key West (Philosopher Pirate) is my favourite at the moment (and the best use of parentheses ever).

"you won't amount to much,"
the people all said
because i didn't play guitar
behind my head