Bob Dylan - Modern Times - Music & Performance - CD

Bob Dylan's first album in five years, MODERN TIMES which is his 44th album and features 10 new Bob Dylan songs recorded this winter with Dylan on Keyboards, guitars, harmonica and vocals, accompanied by his touring band.

Modern Times portrays a new weird America, even stranger than the old one, because it's merely part of a world consumed by insanity. In these ten songs, bawdy joy, restless heartache, a wild sense of humor, and bottomless sadness all coexist and inform one another as a warning and celebration of this precious human life while wondering openly about what comes after. This world view is expressed through musical and lyrical forms that are threatened with extinction: old rickety blues that still pack an electrically charged wallop, porch and parlor tunes, and pop ballads that could easily have come straight from the 1930s via the 1890s, but it also wails and roars the blues. Modern Times is the work of a professional mythmaker, a back-alley magician, and a prophetic creator of mischief. He knows his characters because he's been them all and can turn them all inside out in song: the road-worn holy man who's also a thief; the tender-hearted lover who loves to brawl; the poetic sage who's also a pickpocket; and the Everyman who embodies them all and just wants to get on with it. On Modern Times, all bets are off as to who finishes the race dead last, because that's the most interesting place to be: "Meet me at the bottom, don't lag behind/Bring me my boots and shoes/You can hang back or fight your best on the frontline/Sing a little bit of these workingman blues." There is nothing so intriguing as contradiction and Dylan offers it with knowing laughter and tears, because in his songs he displays that they are both sides of the same coin and he never waffles, because he's on the other side of the looking glass. Modern Times is the work of an untamed artist who, as he grows older, sees mortality as something to accept but not bow down to, the sound that refuses to surrender to corruption of the soul and spirit. It's more than a compelling listen; it's a convincing one.~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

Performer	Bob Dylan
Music genre	Rock
Music release type	Album
Media format	CD
Original release date	2006
Language	English
Is collectible	Y
Number of tracks	10
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Track listing	Thunder on the Mountain, Spirit on the Water, Rollin' and Tumblin', When the Deal Goes Down, Someday Baby, Workingman's Blues #2, Beyond the Horizon, Nettie Moore, The Levee's Gonna Break, Ain't Talkin'
Record label	Sony
Composer	Bob Dylan
Songwriter	POP ROCK
Track name	Thunder on the Mountain, Spirit on the Water, Rollin' and Tumblin', When the Deal Goes Down, Someday Baby, Workingman's Blues #2, Beyond the Horizon, Nettie Moore, The Levee's Gonna Break, Ain't Talkin'
Duration	1 h
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N