Modern Times is the 32nd studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, first released on August 29, 2006 by Columbia Records. The album was the third work (following Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft) in a string of albums by Dylan that garnered wide acclaim from critics. It continued its predecessors' tendencies toward blues, rockabilly and pre-rock balladry, and was self-produced by Dylan under the pseudonym "Jack Frost". Modern Times became the singer-songwriter's first No. 1 album in the U.S. since 1976's Desire.