[Sabertooth]

Thanks for the ping.

Slow Train Coming is a vastly underrated album. I saw Dylan on that tour at the Orpheum in San Francisco in 1980. No opening act, just Dylan solo for a half dozen songs. Then his band and Gospel singers joined him onstage.

They soared through the Slow Train Coming material, mixing in the classics along the way. The harmonies of those three black girls behind Dylan on "Knockin on Heaven's Door" created one of the most memorable live moments I've ever witnessed.

[Mr. Mojo]

I saw a show on the Slow Train Comin' tour as well. .....Feb. of 1980 at the Santa Monica Civic. That particular show was a benefit for some Christian cause, so Bob didn't mix in any of his previous classics. I was a bit bummed about that fact for the first few songs, but then I just started groovin' on the gospel.

[don-o]

I have misplaced a prized bootleg tape of one of Bob's "gospel shows" from the Fillmore from, I believe 79

I really wish he would bring back those backup singers.

Have you heard "Gotta Serve Somebody" the CD of Dylan gospel song covers?

He and Mavis Staples do "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking" that makes this Orthodox Christian get Pentecostal.

[dennisw]

Synchronicity that you saw the slow train tour. I read a Bob Dylan bio that covered a lot of that time.