Slow Train Coming (1979)

1. Gotta Serve Somebody
2. Precious Angel
3. I Believe in You
4. Slow Train
5. Gonna Change My Way of Thinking
6. Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
7. When You Gonna Wake Up
8. Man Gave Names to All the Animals
9. When He Returns

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From The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:


"Anyone else, riding as high as Dylan was in 1978, would have stuck with the same band and produced another Street Legal-type album. Dylan did no such thing. Converted to Born Again Christianity, he gathered different musicians around him and produced an album destined to be profoundly unpopular amongst almost everyone who’d ever valued him as a writer. It is not, however, an album that can be ignored, and in some ways now seems a logical direction for Dylan to have taken. Noone should have been surprised at Dylan choosing to add gospel to the many different modes of American popular music he has covered (and so well) on his artistic travels over the decades. Musically it’s strong, and strikingly well produced in Alabama’s Muscle Shoals Sound Studio under the supervision of veteran Atlantic Records producer JERRY WEXLER. Stand-out tracks are ‘Gotta Serve Somebody’, ‘Precious Angel’, ‘Slow Train’ and ‘When He Returns’."

Best Song:

"Slow Train"
According to Alias

I'm partial to "Gotta Serve Somebody". I think this is due to working for so long for large organizations where I always had to answer to someone.
Folkrockman

Favorite Lyric:
"Surrender your crown on this blood-stained ground, take off your mask"
According to Alias