I cannot freakin’ wait. Rolling Stone, write more about what you heard!

I love you.

I bite and scratch and purr.

bobby is still doing great music and he is still a master genius

Bob will go down as the greatest ever. When he passes, and I hope it’s MANY years from now, it will be a bigger story than Elvis or Lennon. THAT’S how much he’s meant.

I’m glad that all of us and Rolling Stone get Dylan’s greatness. So many “classic rock” stations never ever play his songs.

I wonder if he’s gonna add a full time accordian player for his 2009 tours. I remember the 2005 midwest tour when he added that female fiddle player and it gave a country feel to a lot of his older and Love and Theft Songs. He’s on a roll right now…long live Bobcat!

I am excited for a new album sure, but where is Chronicles 2?

dylan is the man!

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights. Freddy Fender in Dylan’s band?

Amazing, he’s almost 67 years of age and he still puts out buyable material, not just remakes or multiple copies of the same greatest hits albums. Anyone who is’nt impressed by this man was dropped on their head as a child. And I agree when this living legend passes, (when he’s 103 years old), it will surpass that of Elvis or Lennon. But the difference with their deaths is that they happened way too early. Dylan has had a career lasting 50 years. He would’ve had a good run.
But a tour is needed to promote this album, a full world tour. Or he could wait a couple of years and do a farewell? Not saying I want that to happen of course.
It would be cool to see him jamming with Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne again. (Also great musicians).

LONG LIVE ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN.
A.K.A BOB DYLAN.

Can’t wait to hear the new album

The genius will strike us again. Just when you’ve listened your ears off with BootSer8 this new record comes as a spring surprise. I have tickets to Bob’s show in Stockholm and I can’t wait to see him, my 18th time. I think we all should be grateful that he still finds the inspiration to record new material almost every second year. I can’t imagine what a world without a new Dylan-cd would look like. I probably would quit listening to music. Well, the sad truth is that I already almost HAVE quit listening to non-Bob-music. It’s quite scary. You buy the new Bruce-album, put it on 2 times, sighs, take out “Saved” or “Street-legal” and immediately gets back to life. Being a Bobbist is no easy ride

If Dylan were as good as people say he is, he’d come over and help me fix my basement toilet. Maybe on his day off.

cant wait!

the most intrguing thing about this new album is the cover. Apart from Modern Times, its the only one not to feature Zim’s mug upfront. Is it two guys (which would be groundbreaking) or a girl & guy; kind of hard to tell on the computer screen.

There were a few other times when Dylan didn’t use his face on an album cover: Before The Flood, the Christian trilogy and Oh Mercy.

woohoo…see you at rothbury….

It’s gonna be a loooong month of waiting!!!

people, he’s not going to do a farewell tour, and he’s certainly not going to die..anytime soon. i saw him in lacrosse this fall, and the man rocked it like a 15 year old. he will live to about 103 as cr11z stated, and he will likely float away instead of die, probably after playing knockin on heavens door at some outdoor concert. i’m telling you, he’s here to stay awhile, and that means he’ll change styles another dozen times too…can’t wait

What a fitting title! Thanks,
Mr. Fricke for previewing Life
and thanks Bobby for being a friend
to me. Hey, Bobby-play a song for me! You rock hard and the times keep a-changin’ because you set the bar high for the hardcore rockers forever.

I second the idea, Rolling Stone, write more about what you heard, or write it again, it’s a long time coming to 4.28.09. Can’t wait!

Yes, it’s gonna be a LONG wait until April 28. His are the ONLY cds I buy and I think it’s fantastic that he’s doing his best work NOW instead of 1966 (although that’s second best!).

May you stay Forever Young!

So grateful that Bob is still getting the itch to create. As he said, I’m a fan that has all of his 33 original albums and I don’t really care about his periods, I just admire, respect, marvel at, bow down to his unbelievable ability and brilliance when it comes to documenting all the aspects of being a human being at all stages of one’s life. Bring it on Bob. I’ll always be there for you.

A new Dylan cd is not good news. I will feel an obligation to buy it even though I know I wont enjoy it. Modern Times was not a good album. Anyone who thinks he’s doing his best work now has got to be nuts.
Time Out Of Mind was brilliant however so there’s still hope.

A new Bob Dylan Album is great news. We Dylan fans are so lucky we get a new Album! Question: If instead I had choosen to be a “lifelong” fan of Three Dog Night would I be dead right now? Long live Bob Dylan! Hey Boatman are you still looking to help Pete Seeger unplug the amps? You are WAY to late for that. Live in the moment dude.

wtf does bob dylan being great have to do with your broken toilet, John? fix it yourself you lazy bastard

Let’s hope there not too many
12 bar blues. All albums have
at least three. A bit tiresome
methinks.

Thank you Bob !

Great cover too !

The photograph on the cover is by Bruce Davidson, titled “New York City, 1959″ from his book “Brooklyn Gang”.

Amazon has this listed as a double. Any truth to that?

so great to here the state of the bob is still astoundingly strong, can’t wait.

what more do we have to say apart from sit down chill out and lisen to the great man .the one and only mr bob dylan ……………………

I have pre ordered from amazon and am so looking forward to the new cd. There never was or ever will be anyone on this planet who has done “it” “his way” more than this man. His music is thee only music I listen to. He is great! He is a genius and always has something to say. He makes me happy and in my sad world he brightens mine. Thank you Bob Dylan and thank you Rolling Stone for keeping this guy front and center.

Gawd dammit!!! Are there really two guys kissing each other on the cover?!!

so…there is an accordion on every track, eh? i hope it is icluded / used like it was on hucks song, just talkin’, and the like, i.e., just enough to add that final touch (i am sure it will be).
what a feeling it must be to be at a point in ones life where creativity is in synch with experience thereby informing ones output to the point of wisdom. even though i am a dylan fan (not always have i but i am the past few years) i do find his almost ‘rude’ reluctance to enage with his audience somewhat annoying. yet, it is obvious that his fans either, and / or approve / tolerate it for the songs.
the songs…versus…the voice, and production. i simply cannot get in to his early albums because they are ‘tinny’…the wail of a pathetic voice. however, from rolling thunder years on wards, blood on the tracks, desire, etc…the synch was on…voice and songs and production…excellent!
so, like many, i am waiting for this new release in confidence.

I only buy HIS albums.

Everything else, I download!

Bob Dylan… the greatest.

I just love them all and I cant wait till April 28

Feeling like a million…like Bob Dylion.

Could we PLEASE have this man cloned? I cannot imagine living in a world without the guy who wrote “Everybody Must Get Stoned”.

Like all the Dylan fans on this page, I hope that this new album is great. His last two albums were good, and “Time Out of Mind” was excellent. However, I can’t help but feel that if Bob Dylan sneezed on a blank CD and asked Rolling Stone to review it, it would get five stars (that’s an exaggeration, but you get what I mean). I just hope this work is judged on its own merits, not on his past achievements.

Okay. To the person who said Bobby D. said “everybody must get stoned” you are an idiot. It is a metaphorical satire of the situation in the late sixties. If you want a song about weed try, Ray Charles “Let’s Go Get Stoned” or Muddy Waters “Champagne and Reefer”. I am curious because Bob Dylan was arguably the greatest modern song writer but after “New Morning” he was heavily declining. So we will see what the new Bobby album is like.

always great to hear of a new album from the one and only bob dylan , be great to hear him try a retro album back to his earliest stuff of his old style material ( but new compositions not the old material ) or perhaps a song in each of his own period pieces all on one album .

I loved Bob Dylan but eveything after Infidels (amazing album) has gradually got worse and worse, he lost his voice and lost his sound now he plays every live gig back catalog song in this simplistic horrible rockabilly drool and it’s just horrible he’s been rockabilly now for 20 years , jeez why not atleast do a johnny cash and play some stripped down accoustic covers if there’s nothing else left in you but these songs are all terrible, I say that as a true Bob Dylan fan because no true fan has enjoyed anything he’s done for 20+ years. I love him but he lost his way and we’re all to “PC” to say it. We’re doing the George Lucas with him, you know when he screened Phantom Menace to a room full of his old pals, spielberg, de palma, landis (killer) and they all told him it was great when they really thought it was a pile of dung.

Never could figure out if dylan really embraced jesus or not. Does anyone know what he believes now ? Maybe the new cd will give us a clue.

Years ago I was a DJ at KCRW in Santa Monica and played 4 straight hours of Bob Dylan music. Since Mr Dylan lived in malibu I was hoping that somehow he had heard the program and enjoyed it…but never heard a word. Still no one in LA has ever done what was done back then. I’d play the new cd all the way through if I were on the air today.

I can hardly stand it!I’m so excited!less than 24hrs to go!I love u BOB,thank u!your an amazeing inspiration to my heart daily!!!

I’ve heard it and love it. Last saw Bob in Berlin. Us road cats in Katmandu sang his songs in 1965. Now we go to his concerts wherever he plays. Everywhere it’s the same. Packed houses and young kids trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. After 33 albums Bob’s still playing. That’s the fuss. Thanks Bob!

I’ve heard it and love it. Last saw Bob in Berlin. Us road cats in Katmandu sang his songs in 1965. Now we go to his concerts wherever he plays. Everywhere it’s the same. Packed houses and young kids trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. After 33 albums Bob’s still playing. That’s the fuss. Thanks Bob!

Life is Hard and This Dream of You are sheer masterpieces.

Bob Dylan has done some good records I like, I have his debut LP and lots up to and including Modern Times, but hey, this hero worship of him as if he’s the only singer ever, well is a bit sad and a bit conservative and a bit small minded. Other singers are available.Im sure Bob would tell you that ! I will get the new one though !

sure there are other singers, go and post your comment in their blogs

every bit of his music is so much appreciated.

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