After teasing us with the surprise releases of singles “I Contain Multitudes” and the sprawling, 17-minute JFK-inspired “Murder Most Foul,” Bob Dylan has officially announced Rough and Rowdy Ways — his first new album of original material since 2012 — due out this summer.
The album, his first full-length effort since 2017’s 30-song standards record Triplicate, will be released on June 19 via Columbia. It will include both “I Contain Multitudes” and “Murder Most Foul,” which gave the legendary singer-songwriter his first-ever No. 1 hit under his own name last month. Dylan also gave us another taste of the record along with the announcement, releasing the bluesy “False Prophet.” (Sample lyrics include “I’m no false prophet, I just said what I said/ I’m just here to bring vengeance on somebody’s head.”)
Rough and Rowdy Ways will reportedly be a double album released on both CD and vinyl, comprised of 10 songs. As Variety notes, “As for why a merely 10-song album needs to stretch across two discs, the 17-minute length of ‘Murder Most Foul’ may be a partial answer to that.”
New album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ coming June 19th.
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Listen to “False Prophet” here: https://t.co/05k7HYtPiK pic.twitter.com/raitEZpabe— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 8, 2020
There’s no official track listing for the album just yet, though representatives for Dylan told Billboard that more details will be forthcoming on Friday. In the meantime, you can listen to “False Prophet” below.
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