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...Modern Times” ...Is as good as any album Dylan has put out, and that includes “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Blonde on Blonde” and “Blood On The Tracks,” the acknowledged long-time Classics, along with 2001’s “Love and Theft,” the recent Classic. The songs (like those on “L&T”) are more artfully and cerebrally constructed now than they were back when song after song seemed to come cascading...
...Blues #2 Nods to Merle Haggard and to Brownie McGhee. Like the whole album, takes us back to the ’30’s in some place or other, maybe during the Depression; slightly menacing in a world gone wrong, and with the specter of modern globalization injustice hanging over everything. Favorite lines: “In you my friend I find no blame”/ “Wanna look in my eyes please do”/ “No one can ever claim that I took up arms against you.” That?...
...You” (1992) and especially “World Gone Wrong” (1993), he has been recreating lost or fading musical and poetic worlds which he now genuinely inhabits, at least in his creative mind, and from which he sends us dispatches such as “Modern Times.” All I can say is long...
...look at his influences. Rice’s sound is reminiscent of, if not directly derived from, a long tradition of moping whiners who whispered their way to the top of the alternative charts. It’s not a bad move, ripping off the acoustic plinkings of bygone modern folk singers. But let’s not forget: Jeff Buckley drowned, Nick Drake overdosed, and Elliott Smith was found stabbed in the chest. Sure their records were lovely—raw, and eerie. They may have made heaps of money: but then they croaked. They died untimely deaths...
...modern-day narrative, Ella has followed her husband Rick to Toulouse, France where he has been relocated by his architectural firm...