{"id":805736,"date":"2020-03-26T23:19:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T05:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=973993"},"modified":"2020-03-26T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T05:19:52","slug":"hear-bob-dylans-absolutely-mind-blowing-new-song-murder-most-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-bob-dylans-absolutely-mind-blowing-new-song-murder-most-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Bob Dylan\u2019s Absolutely Mind-Blowing New Song \u2018Murder Most Foul\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GettyImages-1162177234.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a>, who hasn\u2019t released an original song since 2012\u2019s <em>Tempest <\/em>yet released albums of standards in the intervening years<em>,<\/em> unexpectedly dropped a previously unheard, nearly seventeen-minute-long new track, \u201cMurder Most Foul,\u201d late Thursday night. Dylan didn\u2019t say exactly when the song was recorded, but his delicate vocal delivery resembles the way he\u2019s been singing in his live shows in the last couple years. \u201cGreetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty over the years,\u201d Dylan said in a statement. \u201cThis is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay safe, stay observant, and may God be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This dizzying, utterly extraordinary song \u2013 as allusive as it is elusive \u2013 starts off seeming like it might be a straightforward recounting of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, but expands into an impressionistic, elegiac, increasingly apocalyptic journey through what feels like the entire 1960s (complete with references to the Who\u2019s <em>Tommy<\/em>, Woodstock and Altamont) and then perhaps all of 20th century America, especially its music.<\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p>The song\u2019s structural freedom and mesmerizing arrangement &nbsp;\u2013 a dusting of piano, a lilting violin, distant percussion &nbsp;\u2013 feel like fresh territory for Dylan, occasionally evoking Van Morrison at his most mystical. Its themes of doom \u2013 and possible redemption \u2013 feel alarmingly in tune with our current moment, which may have prompted Dylan to choose it for release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe day they killed him, someone said to me, son, the age of the Antichrist has just only begun,\u201d Dylan sings. \u201cThe soul of a nation\u2019s been torn away, and it\u2019s beginning to go into a slow decay\u2026 It\u2019s 36 hours past judgement day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In its prayer-like final passages (the song is so structurally daunting that it\u2019s hard to think in terms of verses), Dylan invokes the DJ Wolfman Jack before dropping a long list of songs and musicians, from John Lee Hooker to Guitar Slim to Bud Powell to Stevie Nicks to Don Henley to Dickey Betts to Thelonious Monk, and even mentions Billy Joel\u2019s \u201cOnly the Good Die Young.\u201d Oh, and somewhere in there, he nods to <em>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if the song is connected to a new album, though there were murmurs of such a project earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hear-bob-dylans-new-song-973993\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan, who hasn\u2019t released an original song since 2012\u2019s Tempest yet released albums of standards in the intervening years, unexpectedly dropped a previously unheard, nearly seventeen-minute-long new track, \u201cMurder Most Foul,\u201d late Thursday night. Dylan didn\u2019t say exactly when the song was recorded, but his delicate vocal delivery resembles the way he\u2019s been singing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805736","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 04:25:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}