Tempest  by Bob Dylan

Tempest, the thirty-fifth album by Bob Dylan, was released on September 10, 2012, by Columbia Records. It reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, marking the "late" golden age of the artist. The album is a dark mural of folk-rock, blues, country, and vaudeville sounds. Its lyrics are among the most violent and deadly charming of his career, filled with betrayals, murders, and biblical references. The cover depicts a statue of Pallas Athena from the fountain in front of the Austrian parliament in Vienna, giving a sense of ancient drama.

Dylan wrote all the songs by himself, with the exception of Duquesne Whistle, where he collaborated with Robert Hunter of the Grateful Dead. The recording took place at Jackson Browne's Groove Masters Studios in Santa Monica, with his touring band and the addition of David Hidalgo of Los Lobos. The producer was Dylan himself under the pseudonym Jack Frost.

The album's name sparked rumors that it would be his last, alluding to Shakespeare's The Tempest. Dylan himself denied this with his quirky humor, saying: "Shakespeare's work is called The Tempest. My album is simply called Tempest. They are two different titles."