“The more you listen to Modern Times, the more you sense that Dylan’s cast the songs as a modern lament, in the mask of a new Ovid, a kind of modern exile in the modern world.”
– Cliff Fell, poet and professor
This is the opening track to Dylan’s “Modern Times” album recorded in August 2006. It was widely acclaimed for its Chuck Berry-styled structure as well as its reference to the admired R&B star Alicia Keys.
“The more you listen to Modern Times, the more you sense that Dylan’s cast the songs as a modern lament, in the mask of a new Ovid, a kind of modern exile in the modern world.” – Cliff Fell, poet and professor.
