Born-Again Dylan Reconsidered: Box Set Will Convert You
Disgruntled fans rejected Dylan in 1979, but a new boxed set of his live recordings reveals a new take on gospel music, fired by a rocking fervor.
Hell hath no fury like a fan scorned. In 1979, when Bob Dylan issued , an album that made plain his born-again conversion as an evangelical Christian, devotees felt disillusioned, if not duped. How could such a committed skeptic, a man possessed of endless probing and independent thought, buy into this or any orthodoxy? What place did the nuanced observation of this artist have in the rigid script of the believer? found Dylan paraphrasing Scripture in ways that struck the agnostic as condescending, condemning and small.
