Saved
| Bob Dylan
Saved
Saved is the 20th studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on June 23, 1980, by Columbia Records. Saved was the second album of Dylan's "Christian trilogy", following his conversion to Evangelical Christianity. It expanded on themes explored on its predecessor Slow Train Coming, with gospel arrangements and lyrics extolling the importance of a strong personal faith.-Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
1980. As born-again gospel LPs go. Saved is a work of some distinction.
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All Music
if Slow Train Coming found him at a fairly creative peak of songwriting and supported by a supple backing band, he's turning out routine songs here, and the backing follows suit, resulting in his flattest record yet.
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The Vinyl District
2015. Unlike Dylan’s other religious albums, Saved was a humble affair . . . . Because Saved, artifact of a fallen hero or not, is great in some places, and pretty darn good in others.
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Vanity Fair
2013. No qualifications for me: this is a terrific album, the second of Dylan’s three overtly Christian LPs. . . . Saved is a raw, more passionate affair.
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twilightdawning
2016. It is very much a table-setter and tells you where the artist intends to go with his album. He wants to persuade you that he is satisfied and happy with the way he has chosen to live his life
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Cinch Review
2013. None of this is meant to condemn the content of the album itself, which I’ve always thought is filled with both passion and tenderness.
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Untold Dylan
2016. What this album, and certainly this song, gave us was passion, which is not always there in Dylan. Nor does it need to be, because sometimes the story telling will talk for itself.
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Countdown Kid
2013. Saved, leaned more towards traditional gospel music.
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itunes Apple Music
Saved, opens with Dylan’s intensely emotional take on the classic country gospel tune “A Satisfied Mind,” but that cut is quickly followed by self-penned songs of faith every bit as impassioned, from the fervent stomp of the title track to the downright hymn-like “Saving Grace.”
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The Current
2017. Dylan came boogying out on Saved with the title track, an excruciating Elvis-in-Vegas big-band rave-up. The record only gets more difficult from there
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George Starostin's Reviews
Simply put, out of the triad of 'born again' albums this one's the only unlistenable one. For all kinds of reasons.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
There is no escaping 'Saved', no sweetly played melodies to hold your attention.
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The Daily Beast
2016. Oddly enough, the most overtly religious record in Dylan’s evangelical trilogy is one of the most dispassionate-sounding records in his discography.
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Entertainment
1991. Oddly enough, the most overtly religious record in Dylan’s evangelical trilogy is one of the most dispassionate-sounding records in his discography.
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Robert Christgau
In case you were wondering, Slow Train Coming wasn't Jerry Wexler's album, or the former R. Zimmerman's, or Jesus Christ's. It was Mark Knopfler's. Anyway, the first flash of faith is the deepest.
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Don Ignacio
This is the second of Dylan's infamous born-again trilogy, except this time he didn't have chug-happy Mark Knopfer to keep things interesting. Thus, there is not much else for this album to do except suck.
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80smetalman's Blog
Many of the songs on here have a perky, uplifting gospel rock feel to it.
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John Mark Ministries
2003. This is my least favorite album of Dylan’s Christian period. There’s no mistake that Saved is a Dylan record
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