Bob Dylan
Modern Times
Modern Times
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UPC Code: 828768760628
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Description
When Bob Dylan dropped Time Out of Mind in 1997, it was a rollicking rockabilly and blues record, full of sad songs about mortality, disappointment, and dissolution. 2001 brought Love and Theft, which was also steeped in stomping blues and other folk forms. It was funny, celebratory in places and biting in others. Dylan has been busy since then: he did a Victoria's Secret commercial, toured almost nonstop, was in a couple films -- Larry Charles' Masked and Anonymous and Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home -- and published the first of a purported three volumes of his cagey, rambling autobiography, -Chronicles. Lately, he's been thinking about Alicia Keys. This last comment comes from the man himself in "Thunder on the Mountain," the opening track on Modern Times, a barn-burning, raucous, and unruly blues tune that finds the old man sounding mighty feisty and gleefully agitated: "I was thinkin' 'bout Alicia Keys/Couldn't keep from cryin'/She was born in Hell's Kitchen and I was livin' down the line/I've been lookin' for her even clear through Tennessee." The drums shuffle with brushes, the piano is pumping like Jerry Lee Lewis, the bass is popping, and a slide guitar that feels like it's calling the late Michael Bloomfield back from 1966 --
Tracks
| Track | Title | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thunder On The Mountain | 5:55 | |
| 2 | Spirit On The Water | 7:42 | |
| 3 | Rollin' and Tumblin' | 6:01 | |
| 4 | When The Deal Goes Down | 5:04 | |
| 5 | Someday Baby | 4:55 | |
| 6 | Workingman's Blues #2 | 6:07 | |
| 7 | Beyond The Horizon | 5:36 | |
| 8 | Nettie Moore | 6:52 | |
| 9 | The Levee's Gonna Break | 5:43 | |
| 10 | Ain't Talkin' | 8:48 |
