Bob Dylan
His thirty-ninth album is a masterly late summation of his artistic vision Rough And Rowdy Ways COLUMBIA
There can come a point in a great rock artist’s career, after they’ve weathered mid-life ridicule, at which they are regarded as supreme and beyond reproach. It happened to Leonard Cohen, to Paul McCartney, to David Bowie. In the 80s, Dylan, like Bowie, wasn’t always taken terribly seriously, instead regarded as doddery and out of touch, dallying dubiously with religion on Saved, releasing tracks like Wiggle, Wiggle, clopping along behind the pace he’d once set, just another Traveling Wilbury.
Since 1997’s Time Out Of Mind, however, Dylan’s stock has risen again. He has nothing left to prove, no significant new developments in rock to keep up with, existing now in a…
