BOB DYLAN : TROUBLE NO MORE - THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 13 1979-1981

 

Disc One (Live)

  1. Slow Train
  2. Gotta Serve Somebody
  3. I Believe In You
  4. When You Gonna Wake Up ?
  5. When He Returns
  6. Man Gave Names To All The Animals
  7. Precious Angel
  8. Covenant Woman
  9. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
  10. Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
  11. Solid Rock
  12. What Can I Do For You ?
  13. Saved
  14. In The Garden

Disc Two (Live)

  1. Slow Train
  2. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody
  3. Gotta Serve Somebody
  4. Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One
  5. Saving Grace
  6. Blessed Is The Name
  7. Solid Rock
  8. Are You Ready ?
  9. Pressing On
  10. Shot Of Love
  11. Dead Man, Dead Man
  12. Watered-Down Love
  13. In The Summertime
  14. The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
  15. Caribbean Wind
  16. Every Grain Of Sand

Disc Three (Rare & Unreleased)

  1. Slow Train
  2. Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
  3. Help Me Understand
  4. Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking
  5. Gotta Serve Somebody
  6. When He Returns
  7. Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One
  8. Trouble In Mind
  9. Ye Shall Be Changed
  10. Covenant Woman
  11. Stand By Faith
  12. I Will Love Him
  13. Jesus Is The One
  14. City Of Gold
  15. Thief On The Cross
  16. Pressing On

Disc Four (Rare & Unreleased)

  1. Slow Train
  2. Gotta Serve Somebody
  3. Making A Liar Out Of Me
  4. Yonder Comes Sin
  5. Radio Spot
  6. Cover Down, Pray Through
  7. Rise Again
  8. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody
  9. The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar
  10. Caribbean Wind
  11. You Changed My Life
  12. Shot Of Love
  13. Watered-Down Love
  14. Dead Man, Dead Man
  15. Every Grain Of Sand

Disc Five (Best Of Live In Toronto 1980)

  1. Gotta Serve Somebody
  2. I Believe In You
  3. Covenant Woman
  4. When You Gonna Wake Up ?
  5. When He Returns
  6. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody
  7. Cover Down, Pray Through
  8. Man Gave Names To All The Animals
  9. Precious Angel

Disc Six (Best Of Live In Toronto 1980)

  1. Slow Train
  2. Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
  3. Solid Rock
  4. Saving Grace
  5. What Can I Do For You ?
  6. In The Garden
  7. Band Introductions
  8. Are You Ready ?
  9. Pressing On

Disc Seven (Live in London - June 27, 1981)

  1. Gotta Serve Somebody
  2. I Believe In You
  3. Like A Rolling Stone
  4. Man Gave Names To All The Animals
  5. Maggie's Farm
  6. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
  7. Dead Man, Dead Man
  8. Girl From The North Country
  9. Ballad Of A Thin Man

Disc Eight (Live in London - June 27, 1981)

  1. Slow Train
  2. Let's Begin
  3. Lenny Bruce
  4. Mr. Tambourine Man
  5. Solid Rock
  6. Just Like A Woman
  7. Watered-Down Love
  8. Forever Young
  9. When You Gonna Wake Up ?
  10. In The Garden
  11. Band Introductions
  12. Blowin' In The Wind
  13. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
  14. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Disc Nine (DVD : Trouble No More - A Musical Film)

  1. Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
  2. Are You Ready?
  3. Solid Rock
  4. Slow Train
  5. When He Returns
  6. Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others)
  7. Saved
  8. Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody
  9. Pressing On
  10. Every Grain Of Sand
  11. Precious Angel
  12. What Can I Do For You?
  13. Abraham, Martin and John

Label : Columbia Records

Venues : various venues + Massey Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada + Earl's Court, London, UK

Recording dates : 1979 - 1981 + April 17 - 20, 1980 + June 27, 1981

Release Date : November 3, 2017

Review (AllMusic) : Bob Dylan converted to Christianity in 1979. Like many who have been born again, Dylan spoke and sang solely of his faith for a brief period - roughly half a year, beginning in November of 1979 and ending in May of 1980. Facing a fan base who were generally furious at his newfound religion, Dylan started to thread some oldies into his set lists but he didn't leave gospel behind until he released Infidels in 1983. Once he returned to secular music, he didn't abandon all the songs that he wrote during this period - and it's also unclear what became of his faith, as he stopped speaking of it in concrete terms in public - yet these three years remained one of Dylan's least understood phases, possibly because the studio albums he released between 1979 and 1981 were cocooned in studio gloss. Trouble No More, the 13th installment of The Bootleg Series, attempts to right the record by collecting a wealth of live material from this period, supplementing these cuts with unreleased studio tracks, including a few songs that have never seen the light of day. Whether it's appreciated in its lavish eight-CD/single-DVD box set or its judiciously edited double-disc companion, Trouble No More performs the same function: it illuminates the passion driving this music. Unlike Another Self Portrait, this Bootleg Series installment offers a different perspective of a maligned phase, but it doesn't provide a jolting revelation, not even with several unveiled Dylan originals in tow. A few of these songs would've enhanced either Saved or Shot of Love - in particular, "Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody" feels robust as it dodges confession - but the execution matters more than the content. Dylan did write a handful of classics during this time but the tunes tend to be overshadowed by the ragged, soulful performances, where the songs - both major and minor - get reshaped on-stage and in the studio. The band impresses - this music, which sounded so slick on the released records, has grit, swing and soul - but they're only following their leader, who is chasing a muse that may still remain elusive to his audience. Dylan may not articulate his conversion in words - these are among his stiffest lyrics, allowing no room for ambiguity yet still bearing some playfulness - but Trouble No More, more than Saved or even the fine Slow Train Coming, is buoyed by the music. Whether he's singing a slight song, easing into testimony, or leaning into a blues, Dylan seems engaged, even on the verge of rapture, an excitement that carries through the full live shows from 1980 and 1981 on the Deluxe Edition, where he reworks his old tunes - "Maggie's Farm" is driven by a wild, twisting riff - in hopes that they open the door to his new thing. Few appreciated his trip at the time, but years later it feels compelling, possibly because it's allowed to be messy and soulful within the parameters of The Bootleg Series.

Review (Humo) : Over de zogenaamde gospeljaren van Bob Dylan kan men kort zijn. Of lang. Maar vandaag toch eerder kort, op verzoek van de mogols van De Persgroep. Voor de onwetenden onder u eerst dit: nadat Dylan tijdens de jaren 60 als een onverklaarbaar natuurfenomeen de muziekwereld was binnengewaaid, heeft hij tijdens de jaren 70 zijn supersterrenstatus verstevigd met een reeks vinylplaten die zowel naar vorm als inhoud fenomenaal waren. Daarvan moet u vooral "New Morning", "Planet Waves", "Blood on the Tracks", "Desire" en "Street-Legal" kennen voor het examen. Daarna ging Bob aan het einde van de seventies kortstondig maar helemaal op in de Heer. Op religieus vlak zweefde hij tot dan tussen totale goddeloosheid en enige genetische verwantschap met het jodendom. Zijn bekering had te maken, schijnt het, met een mysterieus kruisbeeldje dat een fan tijdens een concert op het podium had gekeild. Tegen zijn gewoonte in raapte Dylan het kleinood op en hij stak het in zijn broekzak. Het kwam daarna in zijn loge terecht, in zijn tourbus en uiteindelijk verscheen het weer op het podium. Een kantelpunt in zijn leven! Al had het volgens insiders ook gewoon te maken met Bobs aanhouderij met zijn zwarte backingzangeres Carolyn Dennis, die zo born-again was als de neten en de bard tijdens de onvermijdelijke pillow talk achteraf wellicht mee op het rechte pad hielp. "Saved" zong Dylan kort daarop in ieder geval, alsook "Gotta Serve Somebody" en "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking". Allemaal liefdessongs, deze keer niet bestemd voor diverse dames, maar uitsluitend voor de Allerhoogste. Bedenk ook dat het eind jaren 70 niet makkelijk was om zomaar luidop te verkondigen volledig in Jezus getreden te zijn. Het was een beetje zoals nu "Allahu akbar" roepen in een luchthaven. Maar Dylan beleed zijn pas gevonden geloof uitgebreid en luidkeels. Zijn Bijbelplaten ("Slow Train Coming", "Saved", "Shot of Love") werden destijds verguisd en zijn nu vergeten. Maar behalve dat ze in foeilelijke hoezen zaten, zijn ze ook wel echt onderschat. Al zijn ze onmiskenbaar wat braaf in vergelijking met de live-versies van al die Bijbelsongs waarmee Dylan daarna twee jaar lang heeft getourd. "Trouble No More", Dylans dertiende officiële bootlegcollectie, is een uitgebreide en helemaal live gespeelde hommage aan en wiedergutmachung van die periode. In diverse formaten, gaande van acht cd's plus dvd, of vijf elpees plus boek, tot helemaal de luxe, inclusief volledige concertfilm. Goede tot grootse songs ("Every Grain of Sand", beter dan de vier evangelies samen!), geweldige muzikanten (Tom Petty, Carlos Santana, Mark Knopfler, Jim Keltner, Al Kooper) en een Dylan in totale vorm. Voor de kenners: voor wie goed zoekt, staan er niet minder dan veertien nooit eerder gehoorde Dylan-nummers op dit petit chef d'oeuvre. Hallelujah. Alsook: nondedju!

Review (Wikipedia) : The Bootleg Series Vol. 13: Trouble No More 1979–1981 is a set of recordings from 1979 to 1981 by Bob Dylan that showcases the music he wrote and performed during his born-again Christian period, covered in the studio albums Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot of Love. The 11th installment in the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series, it was released by Legacy Records on November 3, 2017, and is available in three versions: a two-disc set common to the rest of the series after the first three volumes; a four-LP album version of the standard set; and a nine-disc deluxe version with one disc a DVD. A two-disc bonus set was available initially with the deluxe version, and the standard two-disc set comprises the material on the first two discs of the deluxe set. In late 1978, Dylan became a Christian. He soon began to write Christian-themed and explicitly Christian songs, which appeared on Slow Train Coming (1979), Saved (1980), and portions of Shot of Love (1981). Their religious sentiments baffled segments of Dylan's fanbase—just as Dylan's "going electric" had alienated folk purists in 1965. Trouble No More consists mostly of live recordings from this era, plus unreleased session demos and outtakes from recording sessions for the three studio albums he recorded in the period. On September 20, 2017, the song "When You Gonna Wake Up (Oslo, Norway – July 9, 1981)" was published on Dylan's YouTube channel.[6] It was the first single from the set, which was released in a number of different editions and media formats.The standard two-disc edition contains live versions of every song that originally appeared on the albums Slow Train Coming, Saved, and Shot of Love with the exceptions of the Porter Wagoner cover "A Satisfied Mind" on Saved and "Heart of Mine", "Property of Jesus", "Lenny Bruce", and "Trouble" from Shot of Love. Three of its songs had been previously unreleased. The deluxe nine-disc box set duplicates the standard set for its first two discs, and includes an additional six compact discs of music plus a ninth disc containing a documentary about this period of Dylan's work on DVD. The deluxe set premiered 100 previously unreleased recordings, both live and studio, including 14 unreleased songs (with the exception of "Ye Shall Be Changed", released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1–3), a 120-page photo book and extensive liner notes. The box contains over eight hours of music, and two bonus discs with the complete concert from San Diego in 1979 were included with purchase of the deluxe edition through the official Dylan website. The DVD documentary Trouble No More: A Musical Film (US, 2017, 59 min.), is a new feature-length cinematic presentation directed by Jennifer Lebeau and Ron Kantor combining unreleased footage from Dylan's 1980 tours with new material written by Lucy Sante and performed by Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon, plus over 28 minutes of extras. The documentary premiered at the 2017 New York Film Festival.