Advantages: Some beautiful songs, great vocals from Bob Disadvantages: A touch obnoxious and a bit cheesy at times.
...it comes from the first, Slow Train Coming.
The record opens with the murky bar-room blues of Gotta Serve Somebody (lampooned by John Lernnon shortly before his death in his Serve Yourself), a fairly by-the-numbers affair elevated by a great, growling vocal. As a single, the record proved successful both commercially and critically, earning Bob a Grammy for Best Rock Vocal Performance By A Male, and it since become a regular on post-1980 Greatest ... ...Angel, I Believe In You, Slow Train and, especially, the beautiful piano ballad closer When He Returns are exceptional tracks by anyone's standards. The combination of Mark Knopfler's guitar work and Jerry Wexler's production (neither collaborator had any idea of the album's evangelical nature hitherto the sessions) help give Slow Train Coming a clean, polished, radio-friendly pop-rock sound that marks it as distinct sonically as well as thematically ...
DavidJay 04.12.2008
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