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Dylan name-checks Alicia Keys
On the title track of upcoming Modern Times album, rock icon gives shout-out to soul singer and her Hell's Kitchen upbringing.
Bob Dylan may have just made Alicia Keys blush.
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The title track of the rock icon's upcoming album, Modern Times, name-checks the young-but-acclaimed soul singer, according to The Observer, which scored a preview of the album, which hits stores August 28.
"Modern Times" is said to contain the lyric, "I was thinking about Alicia Keys, couldn't help from crying/When she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the line/I'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could be/I been looking for her even clean through Tennessee."
Informed of the lyrical shout-out, Keys, who was indeed raised in the Hell's Kitchen area of New York, told the paper, "I just knew somebody had to be playin' with me! How could such a legend know me? And bigger than that, want to write about me? I haven't heard the song yet - it's top secret. But I'm crazy excited about it and I'm honored to be on his mind."
Modern Times is the 65-year-old Dylan's first studio album in five years. His last, Love and Theft, was released in September 2001.
The Observer speculates that Dylan and Keys met at the 2001 Grammy awards, when Keys' debut album Songs in A Minor garnered a whopping five awards while Dylan won Best Contemporary Folk Album for Love and Theft.
The album also contains the song "Workingman's Blues," a tribute of sorts to the album of the same name by country legend Merle Haggard. The song contains the lyric, "I got a brand new suit and brand new wife," a line that some may link to Dylan's vague marital status.
The 10-song album also includes the tracks "Netty Moore" and "Ain't Talkin', Just Walkin'." Dylan is set to embark on his third annual tour of minor league baseball parks August 12 at Comstock Park in Michigan. A baseball-themed episode of his fledgling show on XM Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, was recently added to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library archive.
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