SLOW TRAIN COMING

    By Ana Aréjula and Luis Lapuente: focusing on the first of the three 'Christian albums', the authors delve into the circumstances of those crucial years, from 1979 to 1981, placing them in their personal, musical and social context. Analyzing and, of course, vindicating the extraordinary SLOW TRAIN COMING, recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound studios with production by the great Jerry Wexler and Mark Knopfler's guitars. With a Dylan who, at the same time as embracing faith, delved as never before into southern soul anchored in blues and gospel in such prodigious songs asGotta Serve Somebody or Precious Angel, milestones in his extensive work.
     Now, guided by Luis Lapuente and Ana Aréjula, we can finally learn everything that surrounded the recording of SLOW TRAIN COMING and his subsequent tour, in a book documented to the extreme that offers the keys to understanding the album with which many of his followers wanted to 'crucify' Dylan.

- BOB DYLAN Y LA CRUZ DE JESÚS, ('Bob Dylan and the Cross of Jesus'), Efe Eme 2024, Colección Elepé, 228 pages, softcover. ISBN 9788495749666. A special thank you to Antonio Iriarte for this item.