A truly inspiring creative statement particularly as some years back his work was considered to be somewhat diminished, apart from the hardened fans view that is.
This from someone who has heard the complete Tempest works -
"He now makes records the same way he tours - like he's issuing bulletins from one never-ending session of jump blues, clattering boogie, and dead man walking shuffles, cut in steady circular arrangements with his rail road groove road band". David Fricke. Mojo
This latest recording is not going to speak broadly to the troubled youth as he had once done but in the face of 21st Century American pop and rock music Bob Dylan embodies the very spirit and narrative of American musical culture from a previous century, and with a poets gift brings the story into the modern world. Shakespearean indeed.
When he says in the Tempest track Early Roman Kings "I ain't dead yet, My bell still rings" it's clear Bob Dylan has still not finished his story.
Here is Early Roman Kings.
