NEW BOB DYLAN STUDIO ALBUM: TEMPEST

Announcement from bobdylan.com today (July 17, 2012):

NEW BOB DYLAN ALBUM – TEMPEST - SET FOR SEPTEMBER RELEASE

COLLECTION OF TEN NEW BOB DYLAN SONGS
MARKS MUSICIAN’S 50th ANNIVERSARY AS A RECORDING ARTIST

Columbia Records announced today that Bob Dylan’s new studio album, Tempest, will be released on September 11, 2012. Featuring ten new and original Bob Dylan songs, the release of Tempest coincides with the 50th Anniversary of the artist’s eponymous debut album, which was released by Columbia in 1962...

...This year, Bob Dylan was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. He was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” He was also the recipient of the French Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres in 1990, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000 and several Doctorates including the University of St. Andrews and Princeton University as well as numerous other honors.

John Baldwin's Desolation Row Information Service e-mail newsletter this morning adds that according to Harold Lepidus at the Dylan Examiner (who broke this yesterday), the track list for the new album is this:

1. Duquesne Whistle
2. Soon After Midnight
3. Narrow Way
4. Long and Wasted Years
5. Pay in Blood
6. Scarlet Town
7. Early Roman Kings
8. Tin Angel
9. Tempest
10. Roll on John

These are all reported to be “new and original" compositions by Dylan, and produced by “Jack Frost" (ie. Dylan). It was recorded in the early part of this year. The release date of September 11 falls exactly 11 years after that of his incomparably best 21st Century album, “Love and Theft."