Bob Dylan (with Matt Apodaca)
Good Christian Fun
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4.6 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Matt Apodaca (Candy Party! @mattapodaca!) joins Kevin and Caroline to talk all about Bob Dylan and his album Slow Train Coming!
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| 0:00.0 | Bob Dylan is generally regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century |
| 0:09.8 | by most critics and one of the worst singers of all time by my mom. |
| 0:14.2 | His journey too and arguably away from Christianity would also be one of the most famous conversion |
| 0:19.0 | stories in music history, and in 1979 Bob Dylan himself famously said, hey guys I'm |
| 0:25.4 | Christian now! |
| 0:27.5 | Though there are competing legends of the actual conversion moment, the most popular |
| 0:31.7 | one being that Dylan saw a vision of Jesus in his hotel room in Tucson, most agreed that |
| 0:36.6 | the soil, whereas New Faith Grueh, was vineyard church, the Malibu California church, home |
| 0:42.3 | to peers like T-bone Burnett and fellow singer songwriter slash Lamb enthusiast Keith |
| 0:46.6 | Greene. |
| 0:47.6 | Dylan became bros with Greene and his wife Melody, and both men would put out music around |
| 0:51.7 | the same time inspiring audiences to say, oh chill out. |
| 0:56.1 | In addition to his albums, Dylan's concerts post-conversion also took on a much different |
| 1:00.1 | flavor as he refused to play any of the songs, quote, not from the Lord, but instead injected |
| 1:05.8 | the faith-based ramblings of a confused man, or preaching in between songs. |
| 1:10.8 | But this was no become a better bullshit. |
| 1:13.5 | This was in times, oh dear God intensity, chock full of left behind eschat theology about |
| 1:19.6 | the last days, including the idea that Russia was about to bring on Armageddon by attacking |
| 1:24.1 | Israel. |
| 1:25.1 | He would even sell out his past work for the ministry saying, I tell you the times |
| 1:29.2 | were changing and they were. |
| 1:31.0 | I told you the ante was blown in the wind and it was. |
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