Listen to a "Trouble No More" Sampler here (via NPR)

If you're at all interested in Bob Dylan's newest upcoming bootleg series release, you can listen to a sampler here thanks to NPR.

I've long admired the music of Bob Dylan's so-called "gospel" era, and am fully ready to pay an arm n' a leg to listen to over 100 songs, view a concert film, and read a booklet with detailed liner notes.

I've listened to some of these previously unheard live cuts- and I can say this: The band is a tight, loud, chugging unit that throws exclamation points on Bob's fiery furnace preaching and passionate, heartfelt singing. There'll always be an urgency in your music if you think the apocalypse is near. For an artist like Bob Dylan, that apocalypse, whether it was metaphorical or not, pushed him to new heights. The stinging lines of the guitar, the wooden floorboards, the overblown PA systems-ever song has a setting, and in the few I've heard, Bob'll take you there.



My previous entries of Dylan's gospel era can be found here:

PREACHED ON IN THE WORLD: WHAT HAPPENED WITH BOB DYLAN IN TORONTO (1980)?

THE FORGOTTEN GOSPEL SONG

IF STREET LEGAL WAS THE QUESTION, BOB HOPPED ON THE SLOW TRAIN FOR THE ANSWER

HOWLIN' WOLF & CHANGING WAYS OF THINKING


Comments

  1. I'll be hangin on to this bootleg like a solid rock! Some of my favorites so far

    Ain't gonna go to hell for anybody- manipulation, deception, delusions, and illusions! We can do it all just as well as anybody.

    When He Returns & Covenant Woman- Early takes that cast aside all loyalty and pride

    Precious Angel - A live performance that keeps me reeling all the way out of Egypt and straight through Ethiopia!

    Dead man- Lots of new lines and much needed harp solos. Not sure if I got this line right especially the last part, but it's quite an image: "killed his body someplace else and dumped it into a long black limousine. they arrested him for breaking and entering into a place that he's never seen. the filthiest girl that they could find could make it look like it'd been a Queen oooh i can't stand it, i can't stand it the way they make it look so clean"

    Caribbean Wind- Less chaos & a sincere delivery + many meaningful verses. Change of direction is a nice touch Mexico to Curaçao vs Nassau to Mexico

    Making a liar out of me- All I hear is "There's a long distance train, rollin through the rain"

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