Sure, BobDylan's new album 'Rough and Rowdy Ways' could be read as a typical late-career rumination on mortality. But, as his music tends to be, it's so much more than that. Read erdanton's review:
There’s something almost reassuring about a musician who has remained willfully opaque for decades reemerging at this particular moment to croak existential riddles over hot blues licks.as one of those late-career ruminations on mortality that often seem to come from musicians of a certain age, or a full-circle accounting that reconnects Dylan, now 79, with his early days as a folk singer with a socially conscious bent.
Indeed, his latest comes after three albums spent rummaging around in the American songbook, an exercise that amounted to a gracious courtesy call from a guy who knows a few things about writing songs that endure. It’s hard to say what effect, if any, burrowing into those touchstone tunes has had on his own writing.simply sounds like Dylan, at his most Dylan-esque.
It’s a pensive, torchy song that puts Dylan’s voice right up front, which makes sense: The tune is perhaps the crux of the album, and maybe even his career: Dylan has always contained multitudes, from protest songs to Christianity to winning the Nobel Prize for literature, and he’s bristled over the years at attempts to define—and thereby confine—him as an artist.
Dylan’s wry sensibility pops up from line to line throughout, and underpins the entirety of the mordant “My Own Version of You” as Dylan’s narrator combs “morgues and monasteries / Looking for the necessary body parts” to build a creature “who feels the way that I feel.” The song is taut with glimmering haunted-house guitar chords that glide along with a descending bassline behind Dylan’s ground-glass voice.
The handful of turned-up blues numbers offer a contrast to the more reflective songs. Like any good bluesman, Dylan mixes sacred and profane on “Goodbye Jimmy Reed,” a tribute to the mid-20th-century singer and guitarist that weaves together spiritual references and bawdier fare over a propulsive beat and raucous harmonica, accented with a flashy guitar turnaround at the end of each 12-bar figure.
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