{"id":517,"date":"2012-08-03T06:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T06:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=517"},"modified":"2012-08-03T06:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T06:31:29","slug":"bob-dylan-early-roman-kings-teaser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/517\/bob-dylan-early-roman-kings-teaser\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan: Early Roman Kings Teaser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HHLsThejspo?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"540\" height=\"295\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-518 alignleft\" title=\"Bob Dylan Early Roman Kings\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bob-dylan-early-roman-kings-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bob Dylan Early Roman Kings\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bob-dylan-early-roman-kings-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bob-dylan-early-roman-kings-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/bob-dylan-early-roman-kings.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Given that Bob Dylan has appeared in some pretty unlikely places over the years &#8212; from an episode of <em>Dharma &amp; Greg<\/em> to <em>Pawn Stars<\/em> &#8212; the circumstances surrounding our first preview of his 35th LP, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2012\/07\/bob-dylan-tempest-tracklist-release-date\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tempest<\/a><\/em>, shouldn&#8217;t come completely as a surprise:\u00a0<em>Strike Back<\/em>, a Cinemax television series, just premiered the trailer for their second season, complete with yet another premiere: Dylan&#8217;s &#8220;Early Roman Kings.&#8221; Well, 2 minutes of the cut, give or take a few lines of dialogue and gunfire effects.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What we are able to glean from the teaser is that <em>Tempest<\/em> finds Dylan in similar-sounding territory as his last studio set, <em>Together Through Life<\/em>. As he&#8217;s wont to do, Dylan takes inspiration for the melody and structure from a couple of forebears in the blues, this time borrowing from well known recordings by\u00a0Muddy Waters and Bo Diddley.<\/p>\n<p>But more importantly, instant-classic Dylan lines like this have whet our appetite for the album&#8217;s lyrical content: &#8220;They&#8217;re peddlers and they&#8217;re meddlers,&#8221; he sings. &#8220;They buy and they sell \/\u00a0They destroyed your city \/\u00a0They&#8217;ll destroy you as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Give a couple minutes of &#8220;Early Roman Kings&#8221; a spin above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that Bob Dylan has appeared in some pretty unlikely places over the years &#8212; from an episode of Dharma &amp; Greg to Pawn Stars &#8212; the circumstances surrounding our first preview of his 35th LP, Tempest, shouldn&#8217;t come completely as a surprise:\u00a0Strike Back, a Cinemax television series, just premiered the trailer for their second &#8230; <a title=\"Bob Dylan: Early Roman Kings Teaser\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/517\/bob-dylan-early-roman-kings-teaser\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bob-dylan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}