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Alicia Keys – Pressing On – The Best Dylan Covers

Saved is the twentieth studio album by Bob Dylan, released on June 23, 1980. Among the songs are the hymn-like song, Pressing On.

“Two stand-out tracks, nonetheless: the turbulent ‘Pressing On’ (Dylan creating convincing hot gospel) and the intelligently submissive, courageous address (including a lovely, aptly devotional harmonica) that is ‘What Can I Do For You?””
~Michael Gray (The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia)

The album was recorded at Muscle Shoals and was produced by Barry Beckett and Jerry Wexler. In 2013 Alicia Keys chose Pressing On as her song for the documentary about “The Muscle Shoals sound”.

Muscle Shoals is a 2013 documentary film about FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_message message_box_color=”mulled_wine” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-quote-left”]PV: You’re not preaching to us?
Dylan: No, no I’m not… I’m not… I’m not (pause) I could do a little bit of this and a little bit of
that but right now I’m just content to play these shows. I don’t have, uh… this is a stage
show we’re doing, it’s not, uh, a salvation ceremony.
-Paul Vincent Interview, San Francisco – November 18, 1980[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row]

1980 Concerts

Second Gospel Tour
- From January 11 – Portland, Oregon –> February 9 – Charleston, West Virginia
- 24 Concerts
- Only religious songs
22nd Annual Grammy Award Ceremony
- February 27 – Los Angeles, California
- Gotta Server Somebody
Third Gospel Tour
- From April 17 – Toronto, Canada –> May 21 – Dayton, Ohio
- 29 concerts
- Only religious songs
Musical Retrospective Tour
- November 9 – San Francisco, California –> December 4 – Portland, Oregon
- 19 concerts
- Gradually more and more of his “old” songs began to infiltrate the setlists, the last show had about 50% non-religious songs
A total of 72 concerts

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