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}} ''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 Dylan's third straight (following ''Time Out of Mind'' and ''Love and Theft'') to be met with nearly universal praise from fans and critics. 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. ''Modern Times'' became the singer-songwriter's first #1 album in the US 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 number one.〔NME, "Bob Dylan gets his first number one for 30 years", at (NME.com ); last accessed September 9, 2006.〕 It also reached #1 in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland, debuted #2 in Germany, Austria and Sweden. It reached #3 in the UK and the Netherlands, respectively, and had sold over 4 million copies worldwide in its first two months of release. As with its two studio predecessors, the album's packaging features minimal credits and no lyric sheet. In the 2012 version of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", ''Modern Times'' was ranked at number 204. ==Band and production== 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. Dylan produced the album under the name "Jack Frost". Early rehearsals were held in late January and early February 2006 at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House in Poughkeepsie, New York. Days after the rehearsals, recording sessions were held at Clinton Studios in Manhattan where the album was recorded digitally in roughly three weeks. While it had been marketed as the third in 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." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Modern Times (Bob Dylan album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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