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Studio album by Bob Dylan
Released August 29, 2006
Recorded February 2006
Studios Clinton Recording, New York City
Genres
Folk rockbluesrockabillyAmericana
Length 63:04
Label Columbia
Producer Jack Frost (Bob Dylan pseudonym)
Bob Dylan chronology
Blues
(2006) Modern Times
(2006) Dylan
(2007)

Modern Times is the thirty-second studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 29, 2006, by Columbia Records. The album was the third work (following Time Out of Mind and `Love and Theft`) in a string of critically acclaimed albums by Dylan. It continued its predecessors` tendencies toward blues, rockabilly and pre-rock balladry, 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 poet Henry Timrod and Roman poet Ovid.

Modern Times became Dylan`s first No. 1 album in the U.S. since 1976`s Desire. It was also his first album to debut at the summit of the Billboard 200, 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 at No. 1.[1] It also reached No. 1 in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland, debuted No. 2 in Germany, Austria and Sweden. It reached No. 3 in the UK and the Netherlands, respectively, and has sold over four million copies worldwide.[2] In the 2012 version of Rolling Stone magazine`s list of `The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time`, Modern Times was ranked at No. 204.[3]

Background and recording
The album was recorded with Dylan`s touring band, including bassist Tony Garnier, drummer George G. Receli, guitarists Stu Kimball and Denny Freeman, plus multi-instrumentalist Donnie Herron. This iteration of the Never Ending Tour band had played with Dylan for the entirety of 2005. Dylan and band rehearsed the songs at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, 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 Times was engineered and mixed by Chris Shaw.

Shaw remembered the recording sessions going slower for Modern Times than for `Love and Theft`: `The sessions for Modern Times went 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 Times was 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 with Rolling 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
Dylan`s historical stature, as well as his renewed critical acclaim following Time Out of Mind and `Love and Theft`, helped to make Modern Times a highly anticipated release. As with `Love and Theft` in 2001, Sony held 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 Times was leaked online through various BitTorrent and 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 on XM Satellite Radio, the satellite radio service that carried Dylan`s Theme Time Radio Hour program.

While the album was marketed as the third part of a conceptual trilogy, beginning in 1997 with Time Out of Mind, Dylan himself rebuffed the notion. In an interview with Rolling Stone, he stated that he `would think more of Love and Theft as the beginning of a trilogy, if there`s going to be a trilogy`.[8]

Track listing
All tracks are written by Bob Dylan.

Modern Times track listing
No. Title Length
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
Bob Dylan – vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano
Additional musicians
Denny Freeman – guitar
Tony Garnier – bass guitar, cello, upright bass[44]
Donnie Herron – steel guitar, violin, viola, mandolin
Stu Kimball – guitar
George G. Receli – drums, percussion
Technical personnel
Greg Calbi – mastering engineering
Chris Shaw – engineering
Tom Aiezza – assistant engineer
Sheldon Yellowhair – assistant engineer