Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody (Live at Le Theatre Saint-Denis, Montreal, Quebec - April 24, 1980)

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  Seven Songs for the Week #113 - 4th June 2025

  Jason Carty

  I didn't own any of the big Bob Dylan boxsets and now I own three of them. This started with the Fragments/Time Out Of Mind box which I really enjoyed as an overhaul and exploration of that record. The Springtime in New York box then piqued my interest, even though I don't own many of the albums that it covers, and indeed it's a total reframiing of early 80s Bob. Then I got a notification about a price drop on Trouble No More which covers Bob's Christian period. It's 8CDs full of music. Two full concerts, two CDs of other live material and two CDs of rarities, alt takes, rehearsals. Oh and a DVD with a film. The point of buying something as overwhelming as 10 hours of GospelBob is that at some point a song will stop you in your tracks. While listening to CD2 this week, it was this song which I've never heard before and which Bob never released in any version back in the day. It starts quiet and then reaches a galloping righteousness pretty quickly. Bob's intro line of "I can manipulate people as well as anybody" is one hell of an opening line.