The 17-minute ballad recall­s the assass­inatio­n of John F. Kenned­yNEW YORK CITY: Bob Dylan surprised fans overnight into Friday by releasing his first original music in eight years, a 17-minute ballad about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Backed by delicate piano, strings and muted drums, Murder Most Foul retells the shooting of the US president while describing the evolution of 1960’s counterculture. “This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. It’s the folk singer’s first original song since his 2012 album Tempest, though he has released a number of cover albums in the interim. Murder Most Foul is also the first song Dylan has penned and released since he reluctantly accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature, the first songwriter awarded the honor.

Source: The Express Tribune March 27, 2020 14:03 UTC