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Slow Train is one of my favorite Dylan albums (even though the preaching is sometimes heavy-handed). Back in my performing days, I used to do Gotta Serve Somebody.
Yours is an amazing version - guitar/vocal allows me to appreciate the lyrics, and your stark performance brings out the ominousness. Good blues/soul guitar work, and I also like how you play with the length of lines for dramatic effect. Awesome interpretation.
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@ Chip I think dylan only gets heavy handed when he cribs lines from the bible without putting them into any discernable context. for the most part, i hear the slow train album as a return to protest and social commentary music rather than as a gospel album. saved, on the other hand, i esteem as one of the best white gospel albums i have ever heard. shot of love is the first dylan album that did not compel me to learn all the songs on it. i think the first vinyl pressings were very bad, as when i listen to the CD or wav files, the sound seems to have improved considerably. some of the songs improved in concert. lenny bruce in particular, was highlight on the hard to handle video and on the fall 2019 tour. i attended two born again concerts, one at the beginning and one at the end of 1980. the saved songs, which were fresh on the first gospel tour , sounded much better than the album versions, recorded after the second gospel tour. and the songs from both albums were getting stale during th musical retrospective tour at the end of the year. although the concert on the whole was very good, with the mixing og some older tunes as well as a few covers, into the playlist.
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This is a great version of this song. Your vocal is excellent.
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Gorgeous rendition!! My Daddy found Jesus through these Dylan albums. I love this song. I played this whole album the night before my Mama died, too.
I like having When You Gonna Wake Up as my alarm ringtone. 
@SavvyAZ I listened to the Trouble No More boxset on my way home from my wife’s funeral. Attend both his first and second gospel tours in 1980
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I was sorry to read about your loss at FAWM. That sounds like a very healing album for that time.