Dylan: “Strange, hypnotic sermons”
COURTESY OFBOBDYLAN
WHEN people talk about Bob Dylan’s ‘born again period’, they can miss the point. If there was a determining spiritual rebirth, it didn’t happen in the late 1970s, but two decades earlier, when the Hibbing kid with a headful of Hank Williams and Little Richard vowed to dedicate himself to song. It became a never-ending baptism; he immersed himself in that river and never emerged, just swam deeper.