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Dylan Gets "Modern"
Forty-plus years after tweaking folkies by going electric at the Newport Folk Festival, Bob Dylan's going Modern again.
Out to prove he can keep on keeping on, the music icon has announced plans to release Modern Times, his first album of new material in five years and his 44th overall, in stores and online Aug. 29.
This latest opus will feature 10 new tracks with such Dylanesque titles as "Thunder on the Mountain," "Spirit on the Water," "Workingman's Blues" and "When the Deal Goes Down," recorded this past winter with his touring band.
The 65-year-old poet laureate of rock 'n' roll's last studio album was 2001's acclaimed Love and Theft. That disc's debut at number five on the Billboard 200 was Dylan's best since 1979's Slow Train Coming.
"A new Bob Dylan record is an event," Columbia Records CEO Steve Barnett said in a statement. "Bob is that rare artist whose music defies all trends and resonates throughout all levels of our culture, and he continues to be as contemporary and relevant as any artist in music."
According to Barnett, the label considers Modern Times the third in a trilogy begun with 1997's Grammy-winning Time out of Mind and continued with Love and Theft. (In between, Dylan won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for his original song "Things Have Changed," which he wrote for the soundtrack to the 2000 film Wonder Boys.)
"This is a staggering record by any standards, and is a major priority for our company worldwide," Barnett added.
Last year, Mr. Tambourine Man released two albums containing archival material. One served as the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's 2005 PBS documentary on Dylan, No Direction Home (which won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Long-Form Video and on Monday was awarded the top prize at Banff World Television Festival in Alberta, Canada.) The other was a collection of vintage recordings made at Dylan's old Greenwich Village haunt, the Gaslight, and released exclusively through Starbucks.
Aside from maintaining a relentless tour schedule, he has also released a best-selling memoir and hosts the Theme Time Radio Hour, a weekly XM Satellite Radio show that's become one of the satellite radio provider's most popular programs.
Meanwhile, Dylan's not the only Rock Hall of Famer named Bob with new music on the way.
Bob Seger, the 50 million-selling hirsute Detroit crooner of such classic rock staples as "Against the Wind," "Old Time Rock and Roll," "Like a Rock" and "Night Moves," will release his first album in more than a decade this September.
Face the Promise, his first studio release since 1995's It's a Mystery, will be released by Capitol Records on Sept. 12. It features the lead single "Wait for Me" and a duet with Kid Rock on "Real Mean Bottle," written by Vince Gill.
"It's a pretty high-energy rock record," Seger, 61, told USA Today last week. "I would say it's more rock 'n' roll than usual. I wrote a lot of songs, a lot of songs. I probably recorded about 30, but the best songs happened to be more rock-leaning."
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