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Modern Times
A blurry, black-and-white photograph of a taxi cab in front of a city skyline
Studio albumby
Bob Dylan
ReleasedAugust 29, 2006(2006-08-29)
RecordedFebruary 2006
StudioClinton Recording,New York City
GenreFolk rock,blues,rockabilly,Americana
Length63:04
LabelColumbia
ProducerJack Frost(Bob Dylan pseudonym)
Bob Dylanchronology
Blues
(2006) 		Modern Times
(2006) 		Dylan
(2007)
SinglesfromModern Times
  1. "Someday Baby"
    Released: August 29, 2006

Modern Timesis the thirty-second studio album by American singer-songwriterBob Dylan,released on August 29, 2006, byColumbia Records.The album was the third work (followingTime Out of Mindand"Love and Theft") in a string of critically acclaimed albums by Dylan. It continued its predecessors' tendencies towardblues,rockabillyand pre-rockballadry,and was self-produced by Dylan under the pseudonym "Jack Frost". Despite the acclaim, the album sparked some debate over its uncredited use of choruses and arrangements from older songs, as well as many lyrical lines taken from the work of 19th-century poetHenry Timrodand Roman poetOvid.

Modern Timesbecame Dylan's firstNo. 1album in the U.S. since 1976'sDesire.It was also his first album to debut at the summit of theBillboard200,selling 191,933 copies in its first week. At age 65, Dylan became the oldest living person at the time to have an album enter the Billboard charts atNo. 1.[1]It also reachedNo. 1inCanada,Australia,New Zealand,Ireland,Denmark,NorwayandSwitzerland,debutedNo. 2inGermany,AustriaandSweden.It reachedNo. 3in the UK and theNetherlands,respectively, and had sold over 4 million copies worldwide.[2]In the 2012 version ofRolling Stonemagazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time",Modern Timeswas ranked atNo. 204.[3]

Background and recording

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The album was recorded with Dylan's touring band, including bassistTony Garnier,drummer George G. Receli, guitarists Stu Kimball andDenny Freeman,plus multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron. This iteration of theNever Ending Tourband had played with Dylan for the entirety of 2005. Dylan and band rehearsed the songs at theBardavon 1869 Opera HouseinPoughkeepsie, New York,in late January and early February, 2006, before heading to New York City to record them.[4]As with its predecessor,Love and Theft,Modern Timeswas engineered and mixed by Chris Shaw.

Shaw remembered the recording sessions going slower forModern Timesthan for "Love and Theft":"The sessions forModern Timeswent a little slower, it took maybe a month rather than three weeks. Not for any real reason I can pinpoint. Bob had a lot of ideas to sort through, there were a lot of different versions of each song he had to settle on before he could decide where he wanted them to go, and I think he had this vision in his head that maybe he couldn't quite articulate to the band as quickly, so it took a few times trying out ideas to get it to land where he wanted it to be. And I think there was a lot more lyric writing he had to deal with ".[5]

Freeman remembered the sessions as being difficult, though this is something he doesn't think is evident when listening to the album: "Modern Timeswas a difficult challenge for me. We were feeling our way through it all, and it seemed like it was going really slow, trying to find the songs. Listening to it, I think it's a very coherent album, musically and lyrically and simple, in a good way. Simple in that the melodies and arrangements are 'right there' and the songs sound to me like they would have come together quickly and easily. But that's not the way I remember it happening. Bob seemed frustrated much of the time. But I never really knew what he was thinking, of course ".[6]

During a 2006 interview withRolling Stone,Dylan said: "This is the best band I've ever been in, I've ever had, man for man. When you play with guys a hundred times a year, you know what you can and can't do, what they're good at, whether you want 'em there. It takes a long time to find a band of individual players. Most bands are gangs. Whether it's a metal group or pop rock, whatever, you get that gang mentality. But for those of us who went back further, gangs were the mob. The gang was not what anybody aspired to. On this record (Modern Times) I didn't have anybody to teach. I got guys now in my band, they can whip up anything, they surprise even me".[7]

Anticipation and release

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Dylan's historical stature, as well as his renewed critical acclaim followingTime Out of Mindand "Love and Theft",helped to makeModern Timesa highly anticipated release. As with "Love and Theft"in 2001,Sonyheld a listening event for critics far in advance, but those invited were forbidden from disclosing details or opinions about what they heard prior to the official release.

Modern Timeswas leaked online through variousBitTorrentand Dylan fan websites on August 21, 2006, after 30-second sound clips were released on the official Sony website. The album was first released in some European countries (including Germany and Ireland) on August 25, in the UK on August 28 and premiered in the U.S. on August 28 onXM Satellite Radio,the satellite radio service that carried Dylan'sTheme Time Radio Hourprogram.

While the album was marketed as the third part of a conceptual trilogy, beginning in 1997 withTime Out of Mind,Dylan himself rebuffed the notion. In an interview withRolling Stone,he stated that he "would think more ofLove and Theftas the beginning of a trilogy, if there's going to be a trilogy ".[8]

Reception and legacy

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic89/100[9]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[10]
The A.V. ClubA[11]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[12]
Entertainment WeeklyA[13]
The Guardian[14]
Mojo[15]
MSN Music(Consumer Guide)A+[16]
Pitchfork8.3/10[17]
Q[18]
Rolling Stone[19]
Uncut[20]

Response toModern Timesfrom music critics was overwhelmingly positive. OnMetacritic,a site that tracks prominent critical opinion,Modern Timesholds a score of 89 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim" and putting it among the 100 most acclaimed albums on the site.[21]In a five-star review,Rolling Stonecritic Joe Levy called the album Dylan's "third straight masterwork",[19]whileUncutcalled it a "direct and audacious sequel" to "Love and Theft".[20]Robert ChristgauofBlenderdescribed it as "startling [and radiating] the observant calm of old masters who have seen enough life to be ready for anything—Yeats,Matisse,Sonny Rollins".[22]Jody RosenofSlateconcurred, callingModern Times"a better album thanTime Out of Mindand even than the majestic "Love and Theft",which by my lights makes it Dylan's finest sinceBlood on the Tracks".[23]The album was also credited for original blues and folk rock music which was said to be "hard to hear these days" by critics.

Alexis PetridisofThe Guardian,while enjoyingModern Times,felt that it was "not one of those infrequent, unequivocally fantastic Dylan albums" and ridiculed the lavish praise heaped on the album, writing: "It's hard to hear the music ofModern Timesover the inevitable standing ovation and the thuds of middle-aged critics swooning in awe. "[14]Jim DeRogatisof theChicago Sun-Timesappreciated the lyrical content but found fault in the music, writing that "with the exception of the closing track 'Ain't Talkin'', one of the spookiest songs he's ever written, Dylan disappoints with... [his] inexplicable fondness for smarmy '30s and '40sballadry".[24]Some reviewers who liked the album were critical of its musicianship, such as theChicago Tribune'sGreg Kot,[25]as well asJon ParelesofThe New York Times,who wrote that "onstage Mr. Dylan's touring band regularly supercharges his songs. But onModern Timesthe musicians play as if they're just feeling their way into the tunes ".[26]

Perhaps the sourest review came fromRon Rosenbaum.Writing in theNew York Observer,Rosenbaum calledModern Times,"a wildly overhyped disappointment... The new album is possibly the worst sinceSelf Portrait,with songs that rarely rise above the level of Dylan's low point—and everybody seems afraid to say so ".[27]

Modern Timesbecame Dylan's third successive album to topThe Village Voice'sPazz & Jopcritics' poll, followingTime Out of Mindand "Love and Theft".[28]The album also toppedRolling Stone's list of the 50 best albums of 2006,[29]and was later ranked number eight on the magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 2000s.[30]At the49th Annual Grammy Awardsin 2007, Dylan won theGrammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana AlbumforModern Timesand theGrammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performancefor the song "Someday Baby".[31]

Elton Johnis a fan of the album and has cited it as an inspiration for him to try and capture a more live-in-the-studio sound for his 2013 albumThe Diving Board:"It floored me, that someone of Dylan's great output could come across and make an album like that at his age, which was for me so timeless and sounded so brilliant. I thought, 'Well, if I'm going to make a record again, I've got to make it sort of sounding like that, because that's how I like my records to sound".[32]

In a 2020 list of "Bob Dylan's 10 greatest albums" inFar Outmagazine,Modern Timeswas ranked tenth. An article accompanying the list described the album: "Not bound by genre or style, Dylan digs through a plethora of blues, country and rock songs, offering his audience the chance to hear the indigenous stories behind the music. Dylan spins the songs into a thread far more modern but is still able to weave them into the tapestry of the country nevertheless".[33]

Artwork and versions

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Because of the length of the songs, the entire album stretched out to two LPs, making it Dylan's third double album in a row.

The album's cover photo isTed Croner's 1947 photographTaxi, New York at Night.The image was previously used as a cover by the bandLunafor their 1995 single "Hedgehog/23 Minutes in Brussels".[34][35]

The album was released in both standard and Limited Edition formats, with the special edition including a bonus DVD of four Dylan music videos. The DVD contains "Blood in My Eyes"(Promo Video),"Love Sick"(Live at the Grammys, 1998),"Things Have Changed"(Promo Video) and"Cold Irons Bound"(Masked and AnonymousVideo).

Credit controversy

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Shortly after its release, the album sparked some debate in the media concerning its songwriting credits, mainly the liner notes' contention of "All songs written by Bob Dylan", which appears in most editions ofModern Times.

Adaptations

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Many of the album's songs have musical roots in well-known older compositions, though in all cases, Dylan has given the songs new lyrics.

Additional sources

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Two other sources of the album's lyrics were cited in the latter half of 2006. In September,The New York Timesran an article exploring similarities between some of the lyrics inModern Timesand the work ofCivil WarpoetHenry Timrod.Albuquerquedisc jockeyScott Warmuth is credited as the first to discover at least ten substantial lines and phrases that can be clearly traced to the poet across several songs. Dylan and Sony have declined to comment on the matter, and Timrod's name is nowhere to be found on the liner notes.[37][38][39]Robert Polito of thePoetry Foundationwrote a detailed defense of Dylan's usage of old lines in creating new work, saying that calls ofplagiarismconfuse "art with a term paper".[40]The lyric onThunder On The Mountain,"I've sucked the milk out of a thousand cows", was taken from a speech in the UK Parliament by formerIlford SouthMPMike Gapes.

In October 2006,The Nelson Mailran an article by New Zealand poet Cliff Fell exploring similarities between some of the lyrics inModern Timesand the works of the first-century Roman poetOvid.Fell cited numerous direct parallels between lines from Ovid and those in four of Dylan's songs.[41]A sampling of these included:

Possible sources of lyrics inModern Times
Song Concerned line Possible source text
"Workingman's Blues#2" no one can claim that I ever took up arms against you. No one can ever claim/ That I took up arms against you. Ovid (Tristia,Book 2, Lines 51–53)[42]
"Ain't Talkin'" every nook and corner had its tears. Every nook and cranny has its tears. Ovid (Tristia,Book 1, Section 3, Line 24)[42]
"The Levee's Gonna Break" Some people got barely enough skin to cover their bones. there's barely enough skin to cover my bones. Ovid (Tristia,Book 4, Section 7, Line 51)[42]
"Spirit on the Water" I cannot believe these things could fade from your mind. Can't believe these things would ever fade from your mind. Ovid (Black Sea Letters,Book 2, Section 4, Line 24)[42]

Fell considered the borrowings a homage and not plagiarism, noting Dylan's direct reference to Ovid in the album's first song, "Thunder on the Mountain",with the line" I've been sitting down and studying The Art of Love. "The Art of Lovewas one of the great poet's most famous works.[41]

Dylan's response to credit controversy

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None of these previous incarnations or their authors are credited, though Dylan has casually acknowledged some of the uses. In a 2004Newsweekonline feature, Dylan mentioned that he was working on a song based on the melody of a song associated withBing Crosby,now known to be "When the Deal Goes Down".[43]Dylan has a history of being open about his songwriting techniques, and his usage of older classics. For instance, in a 2004 interview withRobert Hilburnof theLos Angeles Times,he stated,

Well, you have to understand that I'm not a melodist... My songs are either based on old Protestant hymns orCarter Familysongs or variations of the blues form. What happens is, I'll take a song I know and simply start playing it in my head. That's the way I meditate. A lot of people will look at a crack on the wall and meditate, or count sheep or angels or money or something, and it's a proven fact that it'll help them relax. I don't meditate on any of that stuff. I meditate on a song. I'll be playing Bob Nolan's "Tumbling Tumbleweeds",for instance, in my head constantly—while I'm driving a car or talking to a person or sitting around or whatever. People will think they are talking to me and I'm talking back, but I'm not. I'm listening to a song in my head. At a certain point, some words will change and I'll start writing a song.

— Bob Dylan, April 4, 2004[44]

The lack of official credits is not a legal problem, given the age of the source material, but it troubled journalist Jim Fusilli of theWall Street Journal.Fusilli thought that this was contrary to Dylan's long track record of noting his influences, as in the liner notes of 1993'sWorld Gone Wrong.[45]Joe Levy ofRolling Stoneclaimed to have raised the question with Sony BMG executives, who shrugged it off as a non-issue, on the basis that Ovid had died 1900 years before the release of Dylan's album.

Levy and many others have supported Dylan in the context of a larger, older blues and folk tradition of songwriters evolving old songs into new ones, which Dylan was no stranger to in the 1960s.Pete Seegerhimself has previously expressed the view that Dylan is a link in this chain of folk and blues songwriters. Seeger has spoken many times about thefolk process,often recounting that his friendWoody Guthrieonce said to him "That guy stole that from me, but I steal from everybody".Ramblin' Jackat one time expressed similar sentiments: "Dylan learned from me the same way I learned from Woody. Woody didn't teach me. He just said, 'If you want to learn something, just steal it—that's the way I learned fromLead Belly' ".

Track listing

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All tracks are written byBob Dylan

No.TitleLength
1."Thunder on the Mountain"5:55
2."Spirit on the Water"7:41
3."Rollin' and Tumblin'"6:02
4."When the Deal Goes Down"5:04
5."Someday Baby"4:56
6."Workingman's Blues #2"6:07
7."Beyond the Horizon"5:36
8."Nettie Moore"6:53
9."The Levee's Gonna Break"5:43
10."Ain't Talkin'"8:48
Total length:63:04

Personnel

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Additional musicians
Technical personnel

Charts

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Certifications

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Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[79] Platinum 70,000^
Canada (Music Canada)[80] Platinum 100,000^
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[81] Platinum 40,000^
Germany (BVMI)[82] Gold 100,000‡
Ireland (IRMA)[83] Platinum 15,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ)[84] Platinum 15,000^
Switzerland (IFPISwitzerland)[85] Gold 15,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[86] Platinum 300,000^
United States (RIAA)[88] Platinum 1,010,000[87]

^Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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