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"Rough and Rowdy Ways" will be released on June
19, according to a brief announcement on Dylan's official
website early on Friday. It will be a double album but no
further details were given.
The announcement followed the release late on Thursday of a
third new song by Dylan - "False Prophet."
"I ain't no false prophet, I just know what I know, I go where
only the lonely can go," sings Dylan, 78, in the bluesy track.
In late March, Dylan surprised fans by releasing a 17-minute
song, "Murder Most Foul," inspired by the assassination more
than five decades ago of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It also
included free wheeling observations about pop culture and
multiple song references stretching back to the 1960s, when he
burst onto the scene as a folk singer before turning to electric
rock music later in the decade.
Three weeks later, he released a second song, "I Contain
Multitudes."
Dylan, who shuns publicity but still tours the world in small
venues, gave no details about when the music for the new album
was written and recorded.
The author of iconic 1960s counterculture songs including "Blowin'
in the Wind" and "Like a Rolling Stone," last released an album
of original music in 2012 with "Tempest," which featured a
tribute to murdered Beatle John Lennon and a 14-minute song
about the sinking of the Titanic.
His influence has not waned. Dylan won the Nobel Prize for
Literature in 2016 and his handwritten lyrics to "Like a Rolling
Stone" fetched a world record $2 million when they were sold at
auction by Sotheby's in New York in 2014.
A hand-written page of lyrics for his 1963 song "The Times They
Are A-Changin'" is currently up for sale by Los Angeles-based
autograph dealers Moments in Time with an asking price of $2.2
million.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bill Berkrot)
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