The Bob Dylan albums by Anthony Varesi

Author:Anthony Varesi [Varesi, Anthony]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Guernica Editions Inc. (www.guernicaeditions.com)
Published: 2022-05-17T15:08:41+00:00

The “Jesus Movement”: “The New Rebel Cry: Jesus is Coming!,” Time, June 21, 1971.

Interview with Karen Hughes, the Dominion (New Zealand), May 21, 1980, reprinted in Cott, pp. 275–277 (at p. 276).

One of the Vineyard’s pastors, Larry Myers, is quoted as saying that the Vineyard “taught . . . some of [The Late Great Planet Earth’s] themes in the School of Discipleship”: Clinton Heylin, Trouble in Mind: Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years — What Really Happened (New York: Lesser Gods, 2017), p. 30.

Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski, eds., The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, 3rd ed. (New York: Fireside, 2001), pp. 570–572. When asked by Douglas Brinkley why people didn’t pay more attention to Little Richard’s gospel music, Dylan replied, “Little Richard was a great gospel singer. But I think he was looked at as an outsider or an interloper in the gospel world. They didn’t accept him there.” Brinkley, “Still Painting His Masterpieces.”

Bob Dylan and Jim Arnosky (illustrator), Man Gave Names to All the Animals (New York, Sterling Children’s Books, 2010). The other children’s books set to Dylan’s lyrics are Blowin’ in the Wind, illustrated by Jon J. Muth (New York, Sterling Children’s Books, 2011), Forever Young, illustrated by Paul Rogers (New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2008), If Dogs Run Free, illustrated by Scott Campbell (New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2013) and If Not for You, illustrated by David Walker (New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2016).

In one of many examples in the press, Greil Marcus complained of “Dylan’s use of religious imagery . . . to sell a prepackaged doctrine he’s received from someone else. . . . Much of the writing is insultingly shoddy — some songs are no more than glorified lists.” Greil Marcus, “Amazing Chutzpah,” New West, September 24, 1979, reprinted in Thomson and Gutman, pp. 237–240 (at p. 238) and Greil Marcus, Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, pp. 95–98 (at pp. 95, 96). Michael J. Gilmour’s Tangled Up in the Bible: Bob Dylan & Scripture (New York: Continuum, 2004) contains a helpful selective appendix listing the Biblical passages and imagery referred to in Slow Train Coming (and Dylan’s other albums up to and including Love and Theft).

A selection of reviews is reprinted in Thompson and Gutman, pp. 233–243. Dylan’s comment to Cott: The Rolling Stone Interviews, 1967–1980, p. 356. Wenner review: Jann Wenner, “Bob Dylan in Our Times; The Slow Train Is Coming,” Rolling Stone, September 20, 1979.

Heylin, in Trouble in Mind, pp. 73–90, discusses the audience and media reaction. The book includes excerpts from concert reviews and selections from Dylan’s pre-song speeches from throughout the gospel tours. A selection of Dylan’s 1979 and 1980 concert raps are also in Clinton Heylin, “Saved! Bob Dylan’s Conversion to Christianity,” reprinted in Bauldie, Wanted Man, pp. 128–134.

Paul Vincent radio interview with Dylan, KMEL-FM San Francisco, broadcast November 19, 1980. The audio is included on

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