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Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan's first new album of original music in eight years "Rough & Rowdy Ways" includes the 17-minute epic "Murder Most Foul," which reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart for the first time, and 10 new songs, his first since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Rough & Rowdy Ways" is Bob Dylan's first new album of original songs in eight years since "Tempest" released in 2012, and his 39th album in total. As for recent studio albums, three cover works that could be called the Great American Songbook, which was primarily Frank Sinatra's repertoire, followed by "Shadows in the Night" in 2015, "Fallen Angels" in 2016, and "Triplicate" in 2017. They were followed by. Rough & Rowdy Ways is the 39th studio album and contains 10 songs. On March 27, 2020, as the new coronavirus was spreading around the world, he wrote, "Everyone, please be safe, be on your guard, and be with God.The nearly 17-minute new song "Murder Most Foul" (Murder Most Foul), which was released with the comment, "I've never been so excited about a song before," reached No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart for the first time, setting a record for the longest time a song has been No. 1 in the U.S. in the history of singles. The album title, "Rough And Rowdy Ways," recalls Jimmy Rogers' 1960 album My Rough And Rowdy Ways, which was released by RCA in 1960. Dylan, who had covered Jimmy Rogers' songs even before his debut, released a compilation commemorating the 100th anniversary of Jimmy Rogers' birth in 1997 on Egyptian Records, a label he founded. The tribute, which Dylan himself was heavily involved in, featured cover songs by Bono, Van Morrison, Jerry Garcia, and others, and was a tribute to Jimmy, the original progenitor of American popular music." The title of the album is a tribute to Jimmy, who was often called the "father of country," but who went far beyond that label and continued to make music with flexibility, becoming a pioneer of American pop music.Rough & Rowdy Ways, which will consist of 10 songs, will be the first album of new songs since he became the only songwriter to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The Swedish Academy cites its award for "creating a new poetic expression in the great American song tradition." In the past 23 years, Dylan has released seven studio albums. Among them was "Things Have Changed," the theme song for the Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning 2001 film "Wonder Boys," which became a bestseller worldwide, spent 19 weeks on the 2004 New York Times Best Seller list, and was recently named He is the recipient of the 2013 Officer of the Legion of Honor, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Sweden's Polar Music Prize in 2000 and a doctorate from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. D. from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and many others. Bob Dylan has sold more than 125 million records worldwide.