Bob Dylan: Modern Times (Columbia) ***
Stephen Dalton, Times, The, 26 August 2006
ARRIVING IN THE afterglow of Martin Scorsese's laudatory No Direction Home, Dylan's first album in five years carries the burden of great expectations. But behind the obligatory return-to-form hyperbole, Modern Times is no masterpiece.
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