Lesser-known tracks that deserve places in the Bob Dylan pantheon
A tale of forbidden love, violence, treachery — plus a final-verse twist where it turns out Dylan’s at home watching the news on TV, drinking a beer. Ah, the Seventies.Dylan’s Christian period had some of his most out-there gaffes, but also this soulful gospel hymn about original sin.
With a tinge of déjà vu, he tells the heathens in his flock, “Don’t look back.”“Been so long since a strange woman slept in my bed,” he sings in the opening line. Guess that’s it for the whole higher-calling-of-my-Lord thing then? The slick reggae groove, cartoonishly huge drums and all, makes the case for Mark Knopfler as one of his most simpatico producers.
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