posted on: October 19, 2020
Like John Wesley Hardin, Lenny Bruce, Blind Willie McTell, Isis, or St. Augustine.
In one song he tells a guy, “I’ll take a sword and hack off your arm,” before adding in unprintable language that the size of the guy’s manhood will get him nowhere — a genuine shock (and a genuine delight) to hear from a Nobel laureate. As Dylan pushes 80, his creative vitality remains startling—and a little frightening.
And the police killing of George Floyd has only darkened the country’s mood. It’s a funny moment, of course, for a (relatively) funny record.
It can be unwise to judge the artists of the past by the standards of the present. His past few records were covers of old-time standards, inspired by crooners like Frank Sinatra—doing those songs live, he’d even dip the microphone stand way down low, Ole Blue Eyes-style.
The music makes you want to believe his wee-small-hours act; the devilish catch in his voice reminds you to think twice. “A raving queen and a cosmic amphetamine brain.”) “Murder Most Foul” takes on the JFK assassination, but the historical background is just the cue for a song that aims much wider. All over, , he mixes up Chicago blues, Nashville twang, Memphis rock & roll, His voice sounds marvelously nimble and delicate, whether he’s preaching doom, pitching woo, or cracking jokes like “I’ll take the, The singing here is a revelation—Dylan still busts out the gruff Howlin’ Wolf snarl he perfected on, , but he sounds far more loose and limber, full of finesse.
But as always Dylan’s not worried about reflecting the times; he’s taking the long view on an album stuffed with names and totems from the past. Rough and Rowdy Ways, Bob Dylan’s 39th studio album, is awash with pre-eminence, both in its actual and … But he refuses to rest on his legend. Endorsements.
(Light a candle for the late Leonard Cohen: he no longer owns the crown for, .) sending a prayer out to the DJ, like a cross between Walt Whitman and Wolfman Jack. Dylan’s learning tends towards the canonical – unimaginatively so. While the world keeps trying to celebrate him as an institution, pin him down, cast him in the Nobel Prize canon, embalm his past, this drifter always keeps on making his next escape. If Dylan contains multitudes – as per the song of the same name – mankind’s flaws are legion.
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Endorsement: The Times endorses Hoffman, Anderson, Henderson and Han for LACCD. There are bit parts too for Freud and Marx, Shakespeare and Liberace. Election of a board majority will shape the nation’s largest community college district. The title comes from Hamlet, on an album where Dylan also drops references to Richard III, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. For music archivists, a contemporary dilemma: Should racist songs from our past be heard today?
A look at California’s November ballot propositions. The Times endorses one incumbent and three newcomers for the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees.
His last three albums, 2015’s Shadows in the Night, 2016’s Fallen Angels and 2017’s Triplicate, mined its nooks and crannies compulsively.
If Rough and Rowdy Ways has an overarching theme, it is “the long, strange trip of the naked ape”. His crooner albums were delightful on their own terms. The singing here is a revelation—Dylan still busts out the gruff Howlin’ Wolf snarl he perfected on Tempest, but he sounds far more loose and limber, full of finesse. Dylan spends the album rambling through hard times all through the land, in portraits of rovers, gangsters, thieves, sinners. While the world keeps trying to celebrate him as an institution, pin him down, cast him in the Nobel Prize canon, embalm his past, this drifter always keeps on making his next escape. Although Dylan has spoken of his respect for groundbreaking female creatives – most recently, in a New York Times interview, he mentioned Ella Fitzgerald – there is precious little airtime afforded to women in the album’s pantheon.
In raw blues stomps like “Goodbye Jimmy Reed,” “False Prophet,” and “Beyond the Rubicon,” he’s a master of deadpan comic timing; in ballads like “Key West (Philosopher Pirate),” he’s all breathy calm. For 60 years, Bob Dylan has been speaking to us. The scales, though, are weighted far, far in favour of all the old dudes. Among the bands that made their mark on Slash Records were X, the Germs, Los Lobos, the Blasters and the Violent Femmes. But it’s also a song about how the music is part of the turmoil. ‘Then God said, “Hold my beer”’: The inside story of the night that changed L.A. clubs forever, An oral history of the coronavirus pandemic, as told by the staffs of four iconic L.A. nightclubs: the Troubadour, McCabe’s Guitar Shop, Sound and the Satellite, Speaking of music, nobody’s gets less attention than Dylan’s from word-obsessed critics. Get our revamped Envelope newsletter, sent twice a week, for exclusive awards season coverage, behind-the-scenes insights and columnist Glenn Whipp’s commentary. (Light a candle for the late Leonard Cohen: he no longer owns the crown for the best album ever made by a 79-year-old.) Spike Lee brings “David Byrne’s American Utopia” to the screen with all of its joy and energy intact. A word of advice: Don’t mess with Bob Dylan, who, at 79, rips, snorts and cackles through his new “Rough and Rowdy Ways” album like a man with something — or absolutely nothing — to prove. (A spokesman for the singer said the album carried no producer credit, though his last few were produced by Dylan under the pseudonym Jack Frost. Were it not for the presence of bluesmen, jazz men and rock’n’rollers, Dylan, a one-time quaker of the social order, would emerge as a rather square and fusty autodidact. Dylan has brilliantly timed his new masterwork for a summer when the hard rain is falling all over the nation: a plague, a quarantine, revolutionary action in the streets, cities on fire, phones out of order. Galaxy midfielder Sebastian Lletget and pop artist Becky G discuss how they maintain a successful relationship while juggling their respective careers. “Go home to your wife / Stop visiting mine,” he sneers over the last-wine-bar-on-Earth guitar of “Black Rider,” “One of these days I’ll forget to be kind.” He’s glowering and winking at the same time.
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