On his most recent “Theme Time Radio Hour” show ( “DOCTORS”), Bob Dylan made some comments that I think are worth highlighting outside of the usual summaries of that program that appear here. It was right after he played You Done What The Doctor Couldn’t Do by the Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi. He said the following:

Y’know we’ve gotten a bunch of e-mails, people saying they don’t like gospel music. Mostly they say they don’t like it ’cause of the subject matter. They don’t wanna hear religious music.

Let me just point out: You can just listen to it as music. The beautiful part of it is that the people singing believe it so much. Anytime people sing about what they believe, it elevates it.

You don’t have to be a junkie to enjoy the Velvet Underground song Heroin. You don’t have to have horns and a pitchfork to enjoy Sympathy For The Devil … but it does help.

The thing is, it’s all music, and when the people believe what they’re singing, it’s just that much better.

You’re listening to “Theme Time Radio Hour” — your number one musical consultant.

On YouTube there’s a clip of the Five Blind Boys Of Mississippi singing Lord You’ve Been Good To Me. Click here or play below.

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