Dylan's Tempest
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 4:37 am
Now my charms are all o'erthrown ... Let your indulgence set me free
We've had a sneak preview of what may be Bob Dylan's final album. The good news? It's the best thing he's done in a decade
More @ GuardianCould this be the last time? The customary intrigue that surrounds the arrival of a new Bob Dylan studio album – and this is his 35th – was stirred by its title: Tempest. Given that The Tempest was Shakespeare's final play, and we know that Dylan is a student of the Bard, could this be the 71-year-old artist's way of telling us that with this record he's calling it quits?
Dylan himself has appeared to pooh-pooh the question, telling Rolling Stone last week: "Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles."
Source: Rolling StoneListen: Bob Dylan's New Song 'Early Roman Kings'
Tune appears in the trailer for the Cinemax show 'Strike Back'