Slow Train Coming: The Start of the Christian Trilogy | Discovering Bob Dylan, Ep. 20

It's the beginning of Bob Dylan's controversial Christian period. Slow Train Coming is the first of three records known as The Christian Trilogy. In 1979, Dylan becomes a fundamentalist Christian, hires Jerry Wexler and Mark Knopfler and doesn't miss a beat. Critics didn't seem to mind Bob's conversion and the people ate it up, giving him another platinum record for his troubles.

So far so good for the Christian Bob Dylan.

But is this the end of the line for Bob Dylan? Will he keep chugging on into the 80s or will his new found religion derail his career?

More importantly, did Joe like this album? Does Dylan? How about the Canadian Studmuffin Larry Graves? Jason Reis? Ryan Kramzer?

All will be revealed.

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