With all of the attention surrounding the recent Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown, it seemed a perfect excuse to focus on Dylan going Christian for the Jan. 18 edition of Greasy Tracks.
Here’s the archive, while a playlist is here. Need more Dylan, here’s a whole program from Jan. 25 of other artists covering him, just click here!
The bulk of the feature centered on the bard’s oft-overlooked “Christian trilogy” of releases: Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot of Love which came out between 1979-81. There is also a good helping of outtakes and live material, especially from the 1979 Gospel tour.
To provide some context, a track or two from the albums that preceded and followed the “trilogy:” Street Legal in 1978 and Infidels in 1983 are part of it as well as a handful of gospel-styled Dylan covers.