The video version of this podcast is ready ahead of the audio, so posting it early. We continue our series of discussions with Michael Gray on Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan. This time we talk about Vol.2, Chapters 2 and 3.
When we last spoke to Michael Gray he made a compelling argument that the signs of Bob Dylan heading toward Christianity are laced throughout Street Legal.
Today we talk about his arrival, which as we all know formerly took place with the 1979 release of Slow Train Coming and continued most directly through 1980’s Saved and 1981’s Shot of Love.
Gray covers Bob’s ‘Born Again Period’ in Song & Dance Man not with a detailed tour of the three albums that are generally considered to represent it, but with deep looks at several songs from that period.
We’ll discuss two of them with Michael - An outtake called ‘Yonder Comes Sin’ and the widely loved ‘Every Grain of Sand’.
The nature of Michael’s work and writing is such that if time permitted I would discuss near ever…
