Luis Lapuente and Ana Aréjula sign Slow train coming. Bob Dylan and the cross of Jesusa book that reveals all the details of the creation, launch and dissemination of the exceptional Slow train coming. A groundbreaking and absolutely essential album in the history of popular music of the 20th century that was a reflection of Bob Dylan’s conversion to Christianity.
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Disc misunderstood and even repudiated at the time, Slow train coming It is one of Bob Dylan’s undisputed masterpieces. With him began the cycle of his Christian albums, a period marked by the scandal that entailed, in 1979, his conversion to the Christian faith. The controversy was so great that only time has placed Slow train coming in the place of honor it deserves in Bob Dylan’s artistic and personal legacy.
Never, until now, has a book been published as exhaustive about an essential and decisive time in Dylan’s career as this one. Slow train coming. Bob Dylan and the cross of Jesus, by Ana Aréjula and Luis Lapuente. Focusing on the first of these albums, the authors delve into the circumstances of those three capital years, from 1979 to 1981, placing them in their personal, musical and social context. Analyzing and, of course, claiming the extraordinary Slow train coming, recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound studios with production by the great Jerry Wexler and guitars by Mark Knopfler. With a Dylan who, while embracing faith, delved like never before into southern soul anchored in blues and gospel in songs as prodigious as “Gotta serve somebody” or “Precious angel.” Milestones in his extensive work.
Now, guided by Luis Lapuente and Ana Aréjula, in Bob Dylan and the cross of Jesus we can finally know 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. A groundbreaking and absolutely essential work not only in the career of Bob Dylan, but also in the history of popular music of the 20th century.
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