![]() ![]() This book purportedly sets out to tell us where Bob Dylan is spiritually. "This is what I was put on earth to do.”Īnd can you teach me how to dance, real slow? “I’ve had a God-given sense of destiny," said Dylan in 2001. The evidence abounds and Dylan's friends and fans provide a plethora of insight into this veritable music icon's spiritual side. Today, there is not a Dylan book in existence that exclusively focuses on his spiritual odyssey through years of research and original interviews with those who know him and his journey well, such as Barry Beckett, Arthur Blessit, T-Bone Burnett, Carolyn Dennis, Dave Kelly, Regina McCrary, Maria Muldaur, Scott Ross, Jerry Wexler, and Paul Wasserman. It offers readers an informative, entertaining, and nuanced look into Bob Dylan’s spiritual odyssey. "What does stick is his music, in part because his songs contain a deep, abiding spirituality that moves listeners like me more than the songs of any other artist."īob Dylan: A Spiritual Life bridges the gap between purpose and meaning in grand fashion. ![]() "Call Dylan whatever you want, but the name won’t stick," said foreword writer and film director Scott Derrickson. Tracking an American original-from his Jewish roots to his controversial embrace of Jesus to his enduring legacy as the composer of the Tempest album-Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life delivers the story of a man in dogged pursuit of redemption.īased on years of research and original interviews, this book sorts through the myths and misunderstandings and reveals Dylan to be both traditional and radical in the way he expresses his spiritual quest for purpose and meaning. Do you think it might ever surface on one of his official bootleg collections? Just asking for a friend.Never before has a book like this one delved into the spiritual odyssey of cultural icon Bob Dylan. Somewhere, though, there’s probably a Dylan bar mitzvah tape. And there is no Goldfine & Sons Fine Furniture in Hibbing. the Wesley United Methodist Church is at 303 E. I wish it was true that would be nice.”įor the record, the Agudath Achim Synagogue was at 2320 W. But as far as us here, that’s a complete fabrication. This building was never a synagogue in the past,” Wesley United Methodist Church Pastor Andy Petter said Wednesday. ![]() “There’s never been any Pastor Wendell Helgason here. Sorry to get Dylan fans all tangled up in bar mitzvah, but none of this is true, other than Bob having a bar mitzvah. “I was at Bobby’s bar mitzvah and let me tell you he was no Pavarotti and no Sinatra either.” “That’s him all right,” said the former proprietor of Goldfine & Sons Fine Furniture on Main Street. The story, written by Gabriel Emanuel, said Helgason discovered a Sony reel-to-reel tape, dated May 22, 1954, in the basement featuring an unmistakably nasal voice.Įmanuel quoted Hibbing resident Isadore Goldfine, 77, who definitely identified the singer as the future Dylan. Quoting Pastor Wendell Helgason, a third generation Hibbing resident, the story on said that the church had formerly been Agudath Achim Synagogue, where Dylan had his bar mitzvah at age 13. reported last weekend that a pastor at the Wesley United Methodist Church in Hibbing recently discovered a tape of Bobby Zimmerman rehearsing for his 1954 bar mitzvah.Ĭould this be the first known musical recording by the singer who would become Bob Dylan? It sounded like a major discovery for Dylanologists. ![]()
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