Bob Dylan

[stevevw]

I know everyone knows the classic Dylan songs like 'Knocking on Heavens door', 'Hurricane' and 'Blowin in the wind' and all that. But I have been getting back into his earlier and less commercial stuff. Also his live stuff where he improvises.

Heres a few that I think show a different side to Dylan and I think are also spiritual. Dylan always touched on the divine and though he did not explicitely state it I think he came to God early and was expressing the line between gospel, belief and the world of rock and roll he had to treverse.

 

[peaceful-forest]

My understanding was that Bob Dylan did accept Jesus' payment for his sins in the 1970s. It's good to hear this, considering how rock stars typically don't love God.

He has a song called "You Gotta Serve Somebody".

 

[stevevw]

My understanding was that Bob Dylan did accept Jesus' payment for his sins in the 1970s. It's good to hear this, considering how rock stars typically don't love God.

He has a song called "You Gotta Serve Somebody".

I was going to add this song to my post. This is a great song and when the album came out it created some talk about God. I remember me and my friends before being a Christian would be trying to rationalise why Dylan was singing about God. We could not understand it and thought he had gone mad and all religious.

As it turned out his deal was not with the man down below it was with the big chief in the sky.

It sort of makes sense that someone like Dylan was open to God as he was an open to something greater. His songs about injustices showed he understood there was a greater truth than what was happening in the world.

 

[stevevw]

In saying that here is one of his classic songs about injustice. I like this live version as it captures what the culture thought of Dylan as well.

 

[stevevw]

I am learning a couple of Dylan songs on guitar. I like the less popular commercial songs as they seem more like the real Dylan or Dylan at his best. Though his hits like Hurricane were simply the best.

But I like it when sings about lifes stories. I am not sure what this song is about. I think its a double meaning of Dylans romance with a girl he calls Isis. But also an adventure in robbing a the tom of Isis the Egyptian Pharoah. Maybe but I like the story telling and the way Dylan tells it.