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"Gotta Serve Somebody" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released as the opening track on his 1979 studio album Slow Train Coming. [5] It won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Male in 1980. [ 6 ]
Gotta Serve Somebody was Grammy nominated for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album and also Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals for the Bob Dylan and Mavis Staples duet but neither of the prizes was won. [1] The New York Times called the record "The best African-American covers of Dylan songs since Jimi Hendrix." [2]
The album was generally well-reviewed by music critics, and the single "Gotta Serve Somebody" became his first hit in three years, winning Dylan the inaugural Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance in 1980. The album peaked at No. 2 on the charts in the UK and went platinum in the US, where it reached No. 3.
Gotta Serve Somebody: Mike Ness: Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [350] Never Shout Never: It Ain't Me Babe: Aaron Neville: Don't Fall Apart on Me Tonight [351] Gotta Serve Somebody [351] I Shall Be Released [351] Saving Grace [351] Neville Brothers: Ballad of Hollis Brown [352] With God on Our Side [352] Cyril Neville: Just Like a Woman [42 ...
In 2003, Dylan revisited the evangelical songs from his Christian period and participated in the project Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan. That year, Dylan released Masked & Anonymous, which he co-wrote with director Larry Charles under the alias Sergei Petrov. [262]
Setlist 14 – Gotta Serve Somebody, I Believe In You, When You Gonna Wake Up, Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody, Cover Down, Break Through, Precious Angel, Man Gave Names to All the Animals, Slow Train, Ain't No Man Righteous, No Not One, Do Right to Me Baby (Do Unto Others), Solid Rock, Saving Grace, Saved, What Can I Do for You?, In the ...
The cover of Saved originally featured a painting by Tony Wright of Jesus Christ's hand reaching down to touch the hands of his believers. However, this cover was subsequently replaced by a painting of Dylan on stage performing during that time period in order to downplay the overtly religious nature of the original cover.
"Slow Train" has an earlier genesis than most of the songs on Slow Train Coming.It began life as an instrumental Dylan used to warm up with on tour in late 1978. [3] A recording of the song with some lyrics exists from a soundcheck of a December 2, 1978 show in Nashville, Tennessee, although only the chorus and a few lines from that version were retained on the ultimate recording. [4]