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Bob Dylan: Tempest

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Sep 20, 2012 Updated Jan 4, 2013

Bob's 35th studio album is this week's feature.

Tracklist:

    Duquesne Whistle
    Soon After Midnight
    Narrow Way
    Long and Wasted Years
    Pay In Blood
    Scarlet Town
    Early Roman Kings
    Tin Angel
    Tempest
    Roll On John

External review:

"This Dylan is the fire-and-brimstone version, a figure who's not just steeped in the country blues and old murder ballads but a character from one of them. But the wind keeps blowing in different directions on Tempest: it begins with the breezy Duquesne Whistle, blows harder on Early Roman Kings, howls with longing on Roll on John, a tribute to John Lennon. Elsewhere, he borrows from the Carter Family to tell of the sinking of the Titanic but manages, too, to namecheck Leo DiCaprio. It's his strongest album since Love and Theft in 2001, and still there's no pinning him down."

[ Caspar Llewellyn Smith, The Observer ]

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Feature Album

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