The back story of вЂњMurder Most FoulвЂќ begins three weeks after the liberal president was shot dead in Dallas under suspicious circumstances. In the course of a quarter of an hour, Dylan retracts his first thoughts on the subject of who killed JFK, which he uttered when he was just 22 years old, a rising star from Minnesota via the coffee houses of Greenwich Village. When I asked Yale literature professor David Bromwich about вЂњMurder Most Foul,вЂќ he called it a palinode, a poem of retraction, written against the hopes raised by the 1960s and by Dylan himself. A savvy promoter, Dylan saw вЂњMurder Most FoulвЂќ become his first No. For a world contemplating the imminent catastrophe of a global pandemic, Dylan offered a raspy rap about a distant catastrophe that redirected the course of history when most living Americans were unborn. It was counterintuitive marketing to say the least. At nine minutes past midnight on Mathe 78-year-old singer-songwriter released his first piece of original music in nearly eight years: вЂњMurder Most Foul,вЂќ a 17-minute long song-poem (it doesnвЂ™t really have a melody) about the assassination of President John F.

Not long after Covid-19 began its insidious spread, Bob Dylan struck.

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