Rough and Rowdy Ways: Bob Dylan to release first album of original songs in eight years
The singer also shared new track ‘False Prophet’
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Your support makes all the difference.Bob Dylan is set to release his first album of original songs in eight years.
The studio album, titled Rough and Rowdy Ways, will be available on 19 June and contains the previously released tracks “Murder Most Foul” and “I Contain Multitudes”, the latter of which sees the singer compare himself to Anne Frank.
The 10-track album is available to pre-order now, with a new track, “False Prophet”, released on streaming this morning.
Lyrics to the song include: “I’m first among equals / Second to none / Last of the best / You can bury the rest / Bury ’em naked with their silver and gold / Put them six feet under and pray for their souls.”
Rough And Rowdy Ways will be Dylan’s 39th studio album and the 78-year-old’s seventh in the last 23 years.
However, his last three albums have all consisted of cover versions, with his last original record, Tempest, being released back in 2012.
Speaking about the new tracks, Sony Music CEO Rob Stringer teased: “These songs are unprecedented. By Bob or anybody else.”
In April, handwritten lyrics to Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’” went on sale for a starting price of $2.2m (£1.75m).
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