Legendary US folk singer Bob Dylan releases his first album of original songs in eight years yesterday with the ten-track "Rough and Rowdy Ways." Dylan's 39th studio album features a 17-minute ballad about the assassination of John F Kennedy, as well as a tribute to American electric bluesman Jimmy Reed. "Rough and Rowdy Ways" is the Nobel winner's first collection of new material since "Tempest" in 2012, although he has released a number of cover albums in the interim.