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First Listen: Bob Dylan, 'Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series Vol. 13 / 1979-1981'

The Nobel Prize winner's latest bootleg set focuses on the parables and homilies he wrote for his "Christian trilogy," including a previously unreleased gospel track called "Making A Liar Out Of Me."
Bob Dylan's <em>Trouble No More</em> is out Nov. 3.

Tucked between the rarities on this 102-song, 8-CD, 1-DVD trove of music from Bob Dylan's "Christian period" is a radio ad for a January 1980 show in Portland, Ore. It features on-the-street interviews with what we're led to believe are concertgoers at an earlier tour stop reacting to Dylan's latest direction. The first voice registers disappointment: "I didn't come here to hear sermons, I could have went to church." That's followed by a woman complaining

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