01 January, 2023
The world’s premier Dylan expert offers a deep-dive defense of his subject’s much maligned 'gospel' period, from 1979 to 1981. Heylin goes concert by concert and session by session, adding clarity to a murky era and convincingly arguing that Dylan’s late Seventies are nearly as important as his mid-Sixties. A great piece of rock revisionism.
Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years – What Really Happened Rolling Stone Book of the Year Mojo Book of the Year ‘When I get involved in something, I get totally involved. I don’t just play around on the fringes.’ – Bob Dylan In 1979 there was… trouble in mind, and trouble in store for the ever-iconoclastic Dylan. But unlike in 1965-66, the artifactal afterglo..
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