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    Born-Again Dylan Reconsidered: Box Set Will Convert You

    Disgruntled fans rejected Dylan in 1979, but a new boxed set of his live recordings reveals a new take on gospel music, fired by a rocking fervor.
    by Jim Farber Oct 27, 2017 3 minutes
    "Trouble No More," a new Bob Dylan boxed set, revisits the artist's live recordings from his so-called "lost period," when his music focused on his new-found religiosity.
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    Hell hath no fury like a fan scorned. In 1979, when Bob Dylan issued , an album that made plain his born-again conversion as an evangelical Christian, devotees felt disillusioned, if not duped. How could such a committed skeptic, a man possessed of endless probing and independent thought, buy into this or any orthodoxy? What place did the nuanced observation of this artist have in the rigid script of the believer? found Dylan paraphrasing Scripture in ways that struck the agnostic as condescending, condemning and small.

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