Bob Dylan: New Found Faith

Format: 2CD
Label: Wanted Man Music
Catalogue number: WMM 58/59
Townsend number: T-405

Track list:

1.1. Gotta serve somebody
1.2. I believe in you
1.3. When you gonna wake up?
1.4. When He returns
1.5. Man gave names to all the animals
1.6. Precious angel
1.7. Slow train
1.8. Covenant woman
2.1. Gonna change my way of thinking
2.2. Do right to me baby
2.3. Solid rock
2.4. Saving grace
2.5. What can I do for you?
2.6. Saved
2.7. In the garden
2.8. Blessed be the name
2.9. Pressing on

All tracks: Live, 1 November 1979, Fox Warfield Theater, San Francisco,
  California, U.S.A.

Total playing time disc 1: 47:35
Total playing time disc 2: 46:56
       Total playing time: 94:31



Crazy Joe rated the overall quality of this CD set 2 (on a 0 - 5 scale),
meaning fair.



The keeper of the site "Songs For Johanna" rated this CD set 4 out of 5
and wrote:

> Fans of Dylan's "born-again" era will want to pick this one up. The
> Saved songs on here are better than they are on the album, and makes
> you wish that Dylan's second installment in his religious trilogy had
> been better recorded. "When He Returns" is a song Dylan always sings
> with passion and here is no exception.



> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 23:16:16 +0100
> From: Carlos Serra Guevara 
> Subject: Newfound faith
> Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan

> Does anybody know anything about this boot, Newfound faith? It is dated
> Nov 1st 1979, the first of the Warfield shows. But was it a good show?
> According to Paul Williams, and he should know, it was a weak one. And
> what about the sound?

> From: tgwalley@email.msn.com (Glynne Walley)
> Newsgroups: rec.music.dylan
> Subject: Newfound faith
> Date: 22 Oct 1998 22:31:14 -0700

> I have Newfound Faith.  I wouldn't say it's necessarily a weak show.  I
> would say it's a tame show.  That is, this was the first show of the
> "born-again" tour, and the first time Bob had played any of these songs
> live, basically.  The performances are pretty close to the studio versions
> most of the time--pretty safe in that respect.  Still, it has some real
> highlights--a gorgeous "I Believe In You," a nice cover called "Blessed Be
> The Name," and an absolutely epic "Pressing On" which goes a capella for a
> while.  Sound is pretty muted, but balanced and definitely listenable.
> There's only one heckle I've found on it so far--a woman calls out "anything
> old!"