Modern Times (Bob Dylan album)

Modern Times
Studio album by Bob Dylan
Released	August 29, 2006 (2006-08-29)
Recorded	February 2006
Studio	Clinton Recording, New York City
Genre	Folk rock, blues, rockabilly, Americana
Length	63:04
Label	Columbia
Producer	Jack Frost (Bob Dylan pseudonym)
Bob Dylan chronology
Blues (2006) Modern Times (2006) Dylan (2007)
Singles from Modern Times
"Someday Baby" Released: August 29, 2006

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 had sold over 4 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]