My name is Ben Barrow and this is Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that brings you an in-depth look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record.

Welcome to a brand new season and thank you for coming back. Hello. It's fair to say, quite a bit has changed if you're a fan of Bob Dylan since we last spoke. We have a brand new album and it's important, it's important rather to point out that

it's a classic brand new album as well, as we'll discover in this episode. Just before we do,

can I say thank you to everyone that has donated to the podcast recently? We've had loads of

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Let's crack on, shall we?

Let's have a look at 2020's Rough and Rowdy Ways.

Hello. 2020's Rough and Rowdy Ways. In the middle of a global pandemic, the world hadn't seen the likes of for over 100 years,

Bob Dylan at 4 in the Morning UK time on the 27th of March 2020 tweeted the following.

Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years.

This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting.

Stay safe, stay observant, and may God be

with you. Bob Dylan. It was accompanied with a link to Murder Most Fowl, his first original

single for eight years. The world which had been bleak and unrelenting for weeks and weeks and

weeks suddenly looked a little brighter. It was a dark day in Dallas, November 63, a day that would live on in infamy.

Not that he planned any of it, but it was pretty much the perfect moment to release a 17-minute

reflective song mentioning a life-changing global event. It was a song that matched the

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