New Bob Dylan song: Huck's Theme

I paint landscapes
and I paint dudes

I like how "dudes" is there so he can rhyme it with the title yet it still works.

This one is more ehhhh. As in, "Great, Bob, you remember what you read in elementary school English."

I paint landscapes
and I paint dudes

think it's "nudes" haha

lol

it's definitely nudes

nude dudes with 'tude

i paint brosephs
and i paint dudes
plz send multitudes of nudes

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I'm sorry Bob but it's dudes now, so much better that way

Bob Dylan: Send Nudes

multitudes of nudes

There is another "dudes" rhyme though.

nude dudes with 'tude

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown),

how'd you know my memoir title?

xp “I relic and I frolic, with all the young dudes”

love this era of Bob

nudes *and* dudes

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i love his singing on this one (and the last one). delivered with a wink, but he's not joking. well, not entirely joking.

https://www.castlefineart.com/assets/img/resized/standard/grande-c381rvore-beachfront.jpg

No nudes, shoulda used crude? Ciick to enlarge that if you pleeeze.

I initially heard the line in the last verse as "get up off my d"

had to rewind and check

"Will I be lewd to the dude and crude to his prude and to his profession?" --Joel Gibb

I like "I Contain Multitudes" well enough, but it feels like he just dropped some leftover verses from "Murder Most Foul." Either way, Bob in old sap mode feels like comfort food for me at the moment.

Yeah, I’d eat up a whole album of this stuff.

a new bob album would just make my year, even though the year sucks

I'm hoping that he'll release an entire album this year, one song at a time

our old friend greil, who once argued that it was not *entirely* a coincidence that john lydon's name was similar to that of the medieval anabaptist leader john of leyden, is unimpressed by the david ferrie/guy banister theory:

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/real-life-rock-top-10-april-2020/

I really liked that review, though--the fact that it was based on something concrete, the widespread reaction to the song, rather than some impenetrable tangent, that was a good start. I think he made a somewhat significant factual error, though: "Murder Most Foul" made #1 on some specialized chart, digital downloads or something like that, it wasn't the Top 100--that would have been really remarkable.

Looks like another new song may be queued up for tonight:

What are you lookin’ at - there’s nothing to see. pic.twitter.com/TzCBvpIMBo

— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 7, 2020

New album ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ coming June 19th.
Pre-order now: https://t.co/SN0XeyNKiN
Listen to “False Prophet” here: https://t.co/05k7HYtPiK pic.twitter.com/raitEZpabe

— Bob Dylan (@bobdylan) May 8, 2020

was just about to create this; beat to it ---> Bob Dylan - My Rough and Rowdy Ways /2020) Anticipation and Discussion Thread

ah just saw it on Twitter

"Huck's Tune" really is great. I wish he put it on Modern Times per Clinton Heylin's suggestion.

I have some reservations about that album, so I tried tweaking it a bit. I took out two of the slow numbers partly because they sound like carbon copies of two best-selling pop records - forgotten today (partly because the original audience has now mostly passed), but they were unique arrangements and what we got here sounds like lazy covers to me. The blues numbers I don't mind, those arrangements have been recycled and rewritten endlessly long before Modern Times, but three feels like one too many so per Heylin's suggestion I used an alternate of "Someday Baby" found on Tell Tale Signs.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the final result - for me, this sequence would live up to the A+ rating Christgau generously bestowed on Modern Times:

1. "Thunder on the Mountain" 5:55
2. "Spirit on the Water" 7:41
3. "Rollin' and Tumblin'" 6:02
4. "Someday Baby" 5:56 [alternate version from Tell Tale Signs]
5. "Workingman's Blues #2" 6:07
6. "Huck's Tune" 4:09
7. "Nettie Moore" 6:53
8. "The Levee's Gonna Break" 5:43
9. "Ain't Talkin'" 8:48

Also brings down the total running time to about 57 1/2 minutes.

I approve!

This has always been an A+ album for me but truth be told I usually skip those two tracks you excised.

Thanks Alfred!

Yeah, this works much better. Thanks, bird!

"Thunder on the Mountain" was his best opening track off an album since "Blood on the Tracks".

! that's quite a take, considering a few of the tracks you're talking about...

"Gotta Serve Somebody" probably #2.

Never been a big fan of "Hurricane".

No love for the openers on Infidels & Empire B? Those are two of his best songs!

"Changing of the Guard"?

That's a great one, too...

I listed them a couple years ago

Good list!

I was never a fan of "Changing of the Guard" until I heard Patti Smith's cover. She basically stripped away most of the instruments, but the most effective change was transposing the saxophone part to the piano - makes an enormous difference.

The beginning of "Political World" is pretty cool, but the song never delivers and goes nowhere. Lanois really pushed Dylan to open Oh Mercy with "Series of Dreams" but to no avail - it's not even on the album. Would've been one of my favorite Dylan openers had it happened.

I mostly agree with Alfred's ranking, but I would swap "Gotta Serve Somebody" with "Jokerman" and "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum".

into the fiery furnace with you!

My smokin' Dylan hot-take is that omission of "Series of Dreams" from Oh Mercy is actually a bigger deal than the fabled omission of "Blind Willie McTell" from Infidels.

It's that sound: it's a warm shallow ocean

I could get on board with that take. xp