“Rough And Rowdy Ways is Bob Dylan’s first album of original material in 8 years and his first since becoming the only songwriter to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature [obviously not, Rabindranath Tagore did in 1913, but Sony publicists tend to be crass, ignorant and sometimes racist], in 2016. Its 10 tracks include the three new songs released this spring: the album’s lead-off track, I Contain Multitudes, the nearly 17-minute epic Murder Most Foul and False Prophet.”
“On the CD version, the 17-minute-long Murder Most Foul gets its own disc.”
New album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ coming June 19th.
Pre-order now: http://bobdylan.lnk.to/RARWTW
Listen to “False Prophet” here: http://bobdylan.lnk.to/FalseProphetTW
Inner sleeve photograph, cropped, colourised version of the well known 1931 photograph.
“Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family on Main St., Louisville, Kentucky, June 10, 1931. (This uncropped image, showing the street behind, was published in Bear Family’s 2011 “Bristol Sessions” box-set. Before then only a cropped image had been in wide circulation.)”
Jimmie Rodgers, Maybelle Carter, Alvin P. Carter & Sara Carter.
“On the afternoon of June 12, 1931, the two biggest acts in country music, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, magically visited each other in their respective homes of Kerrville, Texas, and Maces Springs, Virginia — a feat accomplished by the wizardry of Ralph Peer and his Victor Talking Machine Company. These recorded “visits” were corny and awkward — the Singing Brakeman’s effortless entertainer’s charm made the demure Carters seem downright repressed — but they were a shrewd Depression-era marketing ploy by Peer, who unleashed the most extensive publicity blitz the stars of his hillbilly recording catalog had ever received. The records sold well and, despite their hokiness, they remain a fascinating memento of those legendary artists in collaboration.”
Chess Northern Soul
Chess – 9830153
CD, Compilation, Remastered, Digipak
UK
2005-08-29
Original image used on many things.
Nightclub
Cable Street
London
Photograph courtesy of Ian Berry, originally shot for the Observer magazine.
1964
Braine, John. Room at the Top. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1957.
Source: Edlis Cafe