five-cent review #1

(reviews in five sentences or less)
Bob Dylan’s Modern Times

First blush: Love & Theft, part II. Seventeenth blush: shoulder to shoulder with Time Out Of Mind. Only Dylan could triple-rhyme “sons of bitches,” “orphanages” and “religious,” and somehow make their meanings rhyme, too. Each word that paints his dark joy sounds as though it has lived in his mouth for centuries, just waiting for this dusky moment to pop out. Alicia Keys should be humbled.