Bob Dylan

Rough And Rowdy Ways COLUMBIA

There can come a point in a great rock artist’s career, after they’ve weathered mid-life ridicule, at which they are regarded as supreme and beyond reproach. It happened to Leonard Cohen, to Paul McCartney, to David Bowie. In the 80s, Dylan, like Bowie, wasn’t always taken terribly seriously, instead regarded as doddery and out of touch, dallying dubiously with religion on , releasing tracks like , clopping along behind the pace he’d once set, just another