Bob Dylan releases first original album in almost a decade

US folk and rock legend Bob Dylan released his first album of original songs in eight years on Friday with…

US folk and rock legend Bob Dylan released his first album of original songs in eight years on Friday with the ten-track “Rough and Rowdy Ways.”

Dylan’s 39th studio album, which comes 58 years after his first, features a 17-minute ballad about the assassination of John F Kennedy, as well as a tribute to American electric bluesman Jimmy Reed.