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Shot Of Love

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Bob Dylan

 
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  • Date Released: August 12, 1981
  • Genre: Rock/Pop
  • Style: Rock
  • Label: Columbia
  • Copyright: (P) 1981 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
  • We Say...

    The third and last of Dylan's overtly Christian albums is also the most peculiar. Winnowed down from dozens of recordings, it's got a handful of extraordinary songs — especially the exquisite, prayerful ballad "Every Grain of Sand" and a raving rocker called "The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar" — sprinkled among finger-pointing, asthmatic stomps.

  • They Say...

    Shot of Love finds Dylan still in born-again mode, but he's starting to come alive again -- which isn't as much a value judgment as it is an observation that he no longer seems beholden to repeating dogma, loosening up and crafting songs again. And it's not just that his writing is looser, the music is, too, as he lets himself -- and his backing band -- rock a little harder, a little more convincingly. Shot of Love still isn't a great album, but it once again has flashes of brilliance, such as "Every Grain of Sand," which point the way to the rebirth of Infidels.

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