Bob Dylan top Rolling Stone album poll, may sue film

Bob Dylan's latest album, the Grammy-nominated Modern Times, has been named the best album of 2006 by Rolling Stone. The magazine says that the album, which Dylan released in August, "is a groove album disguised as a poetry album, leaning hard on the rhythm section." Modern Times tops Rolling Stone's list of the Top 50 albums of the year, which is just out on newsstands.

Modern Times debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release. It's currently at Number 86 and has sold nearly 729,00 copies.

Dylan is up for three Grammy Awards: Modern Times is up for Best Contemporary Folk/Americana Album, while the track "Someday Baby," which appeared in an iPod commercial, is nominated for Best Rock Song and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.

He resumes touring in late March in Europe.

In other related news...

The New York Post reports that the troubadour has "deep concerns" and may sue the producers of the upcoming Edie Sedgwick film biography Factory Girl. The script reportedly implies that a character based on Dylan, and played by actor Danny Quinn, was responsible for Sedgwick's 1971 suicide while she was at the height of her notoriety as part of Andy Warhol's Factory community.
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