Full of gloomy and brooding rhythm and blues, Rough and Rowdy Practice exposes Dylan at his expressive best
In recent weeks, musicians have come up with an superb variety of ways to keep their devotees amused during lockdown. There have been online listening parties and Q& As, free guitar tasks via Instagram, live carries-on rafter direct from bedrooms, DJ designates and kitchen discoes. But no craftsman has risen to the task of keeping their audience occupied relatively like Bob Dylan. A crowdpleaser only insofar as the crowd he entices would be pleased whatever he did- a substantial proportion of his latter-day audience are so partisan you get the feeling they’d be sent into paroxysms of ecstasy if he stood on theatre with a comb and paper for two hours- it goes without saying that his approach hasn’t involved any kind of chummy online interaction: he simply exhausted three new anthems. An master who’s quite literally said nothing new for the last eight years( his last three albums have been comprised solely of makes from the Great American Songbook, the rest of his release schedule made up of archival transcriptions ), he unexpectedly turned extremely loquacious really, unleashing a series of dense, allusive roads backpack with thorny citations to art, literature and pop culture.
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