On This Day: Bob Dylan Released His Most Controversial Album Ever originally appeared on Parade. Released on this day in 1979, Bob Dylan’s Slow Train Coming became his most controversial record ever.

While Dylan’s brief foray into Christian themes matched a deft hand at assimilating different spiritual and musical ...

This is, after all, an artist whose fans moved against him in 1965 over going electric. “Judas,” they called him. But Dylan’s newfound religion was striking for its intensity. He preached, raged, and ...