As part of his Modern Times publicity blitz, Bob Dylan hawks iPods in a new commercial. Call him a sell-out, but, hey, things have changed. And besides, I have no real problem with iPods…or lingerie, for that matter. And, also in recent Dylanalia, Louis Menand reviews Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews for The New Yorker (courtesy of Ralph Luker at Cliopatria.)
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Don’t call it a comeback: “Modern Times” is his first #1 album in thirty years.
Nice! But I suspect that may partially have something to do with the fact that older folks are the ones who still tend to buy albums, while younger, less Dylan-oriented segments of the music-listening population just download ’em…