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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Modern Times is
singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's 32nd studio album, released by Columbia
Records in August 2006. 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". Along with 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 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 number one. It also reached #1 in Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, Ireland, Denmark, Norway and Switzerland, debuted #2 in
Germany, Austria and Sweden.
