Product Description

First new album in 5 years featuring great new songs

Track Listing

1. Thunder On The Mountain
2. Spirit On The Water
3. Rollin' and Tumblin'
4. When The Deal Goes Down
5. Someday Baby
6. Workingman's Blues #2
7. Beyond The Horizon
8. Nettie Moore
9. The Levee's Gonna Break
10. Ain't Talkin'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1085 in Music
• Released on: 2006-08-29
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
At a time when the majority of those his age are drifting into retirement, 65-year-old Bob Dylan has put the capper on a three-record run that ranks with the best in his storied, 44-album career. Like Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft before it, Modern Times is a rootsy, blues-soaked pool of the purest form of Americana--skipping the progressive bells or whistles for an understated backing by his touring band. Dylan's voice, which cracks, rasps and moans from the pop singer's pulpit, hasn't been this rich and emotive since 1976's Desire. And while his lyrics prolong his steadfast allusions to a higher power and his own immortality, they are not without the Dylan mirth, as when he sings of tracking pop queen Alicia Keys from Hell's Kitchen to Tennessee in "Thunder on the Mountain," the album's opener, which teams with "Someday Baby" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (for which Dylan misguidedly claims writing credit) as the record's most fiery numbers. Still, it's the Dylan that tells of a slave-loving owner ("Nettie Moore"), brings New Orleans to the front burner ("The Levee's Gonna Break") and plays the part of an eloquent lounge singer ("Spirit on the Water," "When the Deal Goes Down" and "Beyond the Horizon") that makes Modern Times sound just like old times. --Scott Holter

Dylan Classics and Collections

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan	The Times They Are A-Changin'	Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited	Blonde on Blonde	Blood on the Tracks
No Direction Home: The Soundtrack	Biograph (Box Set)	Bootleg Series 1-3: Rare 1961-1991 (Box Set)

Customer Reviews

Modern Times
Modern Times by Dylan's latest release is a very good record. Modern Times became Dylans first #1 in the U.S. since his 1976 release "Desire". There are many fine tracks on this record, i.e., Spirit on the Water, Someday Baby to mention a few. The book-let is very thin and contains no lyrics. The photograph on the cover looks like a shoddy work with photoshop but apparently Bob liked it. His lyrics are filled with religious allusions and I most say that I liked them alot. 4 well deserved stars!

Dylan's Death Wish
I love this new collection of Dylan songs and I consider myself quite lucky since I was born in 1986 to be hearing New Dylan material after all he has been thru.I know a lot of people just cannot get over his voice and that doesn't really surprise me.Most people don't have the stomach for the amount of Raw Emotion that goes in it.I've heard people say his singing sounds like He's dying.And you know what;after seeing him live twice in the last two years,I must say I agree.When you listen to this man sing to you live in concert,it sounds like someone who wants to die onsatge.It's almost like his deathwish maybe.I am almost certain that how ever long Dylan live's he will be doing what he has always done.And quite honestly if you look at it all in perspective Bob Dylan has always been the artist in it for the long run.He's not even doing this work for himself,he's just doing it cause he's got to do it(watch the '65 interview)He has said "I see no end".I can't wait for "Tell Tale Sign's" to be released and maybe if were lucky he will have an album of more new songs to share with us soon.

Things Ain't Going Well
After 4 spins, I've decided that this is not my favorite of Dylan's work. The only track with which I somewhat connect is the final track "Ain't Talkin'" where the somber mood seems portend a revelation, "They say prayer has the power to heal, so pray for me mother; In the human heart an evil spirt does* dwell, I'm trying to love my neighbor & do good to others, but oh mother, things ain't going well." The rest of the songs have almost no melodies with arrangements that blend from one into another. This week, Bob's son Jakob's "On Up the Mountain" is #1 in my personal top ten. Seeing Things is a far superior set to "Modern Times," if it's fair to compare. At this point, Dylan can of course do whatever he wants and it will be published; but this is his weakest set in quite awhile. Because it is Bob Dylan, it will have an honored place on my shelf, which I will faithfully dust from time to time. Taxi!

*according to my ear