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Ο νέος δίσκος του Bob Dylan, “Rough and Rowdy Ways” έκανε ντεμπούτο στο Top 10 14 χωρών συμπεριλαμβανομένου και της Νο1 θέσης στην Αγγλία, στην Ιρλανδία, στην Νορβηγία, στην Ολλανδία, στην Νέα Ζηλανδία, στην Γερμανία, στην Ελβετία και στην Αυστρία αλλά και της 2^ης θέσης στην Αμερική, στην Αυστραλία και στο Βέλγιο. Επίσης έφτασε στην 3^η θέση της Σουηδίας, στην 4^η θέση της Γαλλίας, της Ιταλίας και της Ελλάδας. Η είσοδος στην 2^η θέση του Αμερικάνικου chart σηματοδοτεί το υψηλότερο ντεμπούτο στο chart της χώρας από το 2009 και είναι το 18^ο album του καλλιτέχνη που μπαίνει στο U.S. Top 10.
 
To “Rough and Rowdy Ways” με τα 10 τραγούδια είναι η πρώτη ολοκληρωμένη κυκλοφορία του Bob Dylan με καινούριο υλικό από το 2016 που παρέλαβε το Βραβείο Nobel λογοτεχνίας, το οποίο του απονεμήθηκε από την Σουηδική Ακαδημία “για την δημιουργία των νέων ποιητικών εκφράσεων μέσα στην Αμερικανική κουλτούρα του τραγουδιού”. Την κυκλοφορία συνοδεύουν διθυραμβικές κριτικές, με πολλούς να χαρακτηρίζουν το “Rough and Rowdy Ways” ως ένα αριστούργημα και μία από τις πιο δυνατές δουλειές του Dylan.

Ο Bob Dylan έχει κυκλοφορήσει 7 studio albums τα τελευταία 23 χρόνια, ένα δημιουργικό διάστημα που περιλαμβάνει και την ηχογράφηση της βραβευμένης με Oscar και Χρυσής Σφαίρας σύνθεσης “Things Never Have Changed” από την ταινία “Wonder Boys” του 2001, ένα παγκοσμίως επιτυχημένο απομνημόνευμα, το “Chronicles Vol. 1”, που πέρασε 19 εβδομάδες στην  «New York Times Best Seller List”, το 2004 και ονομάστηκε πρόσφατα από το Rolling Stone ως το σπουδαιότερο ροκ απομνημόνευμα όλων των εποχών. Ο καλλιτέχνης έχει λάβει το “Officier de la Legion d’honeur” το 2013, το “Sweden’s Polar Award" το 2000, ένα διδακτορικό από το Πανεπιστήμιου του St. Andrewsτης Σκωτίας και πολλές άλλες τιμές.  

Ο Bob Dylan έχει πουλήσει πάνω από 125 εκατομμύρια δίσκους σε όλο τον κόσμο. Το “Rough and Rowdy Ways” είναι το 39ο studio album του και κυκλοφορεί από την Panik Records και την Sony Music.

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Διαβάστε παρακάτω μερικές από τις παγκόσμιες κριτικές που έχει λάβει αυτή η σπουδαία κυκλοφορία από τα παγκόσμια μέσα:
 
 
***** (out of 5)
A testament to his eternal greatness…. Rough and Rowdy Ways might well be Bob Dylan’s most consistently brilliant set of songs in years: the die-hards can spend months unravelling the knottier lyrics, but you don’t need a PhD in Dylanology to appreciate its singular quality and power.
Alexis Petridis – The Guardian
 
True to form, Dylan surprises yet again by delivering a late-career masterpiece with Rough and Rowdy Ways.  It’s a moody, reflective, meditative, befuddling, funny and awe-inspiring turn for the Nobel Prize winner. Rich with biblical and pop culture references, at its core “Rough and Rowdy Ways” is a record on the borderline of this world and the next, wherever or whatever that may be….The wait was worth it.
Scott Bauer – AP
 
***** (out of 5)
It’s not merely the novelty of new Bob songs that offers comfort in this black swan moment, it’s a set of songs that provides inspiration when it’s in short supply. Call it a vaccine against culture’s shrinking expectations and the subsequent sapping of spirit. or just call it great music….Contradiction has always lived comfortably in Bob Dylan’s work – more evidence of the vast scope of his artistic vision. What’s extraordinary is how it continues to expand, containing multitudes no one else thought of.
Michael Simmons – Mojo
 
A savage pulp-noir masterpiece….A word of advice: Don’t mess with Bob Dylan, who, at 79, rips, snorts and cackles through his new album like a man with something — or absolutely nothing — to prove….Rough and Rowdy Ways rolls out one marvel after another.
Mikael Wood – Los Angeles Times
 
***** (out of 5)
When Dylan embarked on his musical journey as a young man in the Sixties, he forged an almost completely new type of song, open and multifarious, that became a new kind of standard…songs that defiantly inhabit his own myth, shifting perspective between his idiosyncratic views on the world and the world’s views on him.  Almost 60 years since we first heard from him, the old protest singer is still composing extraordinary anthems for our changing times.
Neil McCormick – The Telegraph
 
**** ½ (out of 5)
Rough and Rowdy Ways is his first batch of new songs in 8 years, and it’s an absolute classic—it has the bleak majesty of latter-day Dylan albums like Modern Times and Tempest, yet it goes beyond them, tapping even deeper into cosmic American mysteries….his creative vitality remains startling—and a little frightening….But he refuses to rest on his legend. While the world keeps trying to celebrate him as an institution, pin him down, cast him in the Nobel Prize canon, embalm his past, this drifter always keeps on making his next escape. On Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan is exploring terrain nobody else has reached before—yet he just keeps pushing on into the future.
Rob Sheffield – Rolling Stone
 
***** (out of 5)
with ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’, he’s produced arguably his grandest poetic statement yet, a sweeping panorama of culture, history and philosophy peering back through assassinations, world wars, the births of nations, crusades and Biblical myths in order to plot his place in the great eternal scheme…. It would be foolish indeed to assume that ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ is Dylan’s last word, but it’s certainly a historic address.
Mark Beaumont - NME
 
***** (out of 5)
Truth is the talisman, tell it like it is. And that is what Dylan does….Rough and Rowdy Ways is exceptional.  If it were a painting, I'd call it a masterpiece.
Will Gompertz - BBC
 
Rough and Rowdy Ways, an album that somehow manages to sound like nothing [Dylan] has ever done before, and that looks back across a long and hard-fought life while still insisting on always looking forward….The songs reveal an astonishing intensity and hunger, and a consistency that marks the album as one of Dylan’s major works….What leaps off of Rough and Rowdy Ways is Dylan’s blazing sense of purpose and focus. The man is not bullshitting. It comes through, full of humor and rage and heartbreak, in every word as they are written and sung.
Alan Light - Esquire
 
Rough and Rowdy Ways hits hard.  [It’s] a gruesome, crowded, marauding album that feels unusually attuned to its moment….Dylan’s vast and intersectional understanding of the American mythos feels so plainly and uniquely relevant to the grimness and magnitude of these past few months. As the country attempts to metabolize the murder of George Floyd, it is also attempting to reckon with every crooked, brutal, odious, or unjust murder of a black person—to understand a cycle that began centuries ago and somehow continues apace. What is American racism? It’s everything, Dylan insists. Indiana Jones and J.F.K. and Elvis Presley and Jimmy Reed—nothing exists without the rest of it. None of us are absolved, and none of us are spared.
 
Amanda Petrusich – New Yorker
 
Bob Dylan is a heavyweight champion. Five stars aren’t enough for his new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. The album is a masterpiece, and a masterclass in lyric-writing in league with Dylan’s – and therefore anyone’s – best….Dylan is on fire lyrically throughout Rough and Rowdy Ways, offering up ten songs as dense in imagery and flawless in craftsmanship and quality as any of his long career….Perhaps the lesson in Rough and Rowdy Ways is that inestimable light can come from the dark places, once again making Dylan the voice we need to hear, just when we need it most.
Jeff Slate – The Daily Beas