Bobtalk

May 7, 1980
Hartford, Connecticut
Bushnell Memorial Hall
Concert

Thank you, thank you. Alright, anybody left yet? ha ha. They tell me everybody leaves you at these shows. It’s a little hard to see out there. Middle of the road, East Coast bondage. God is waiting to set you free. I know you don’t hear to much about God these days, but we're gonna talk about him all night anyway. We’re not gonna talk about no mysticism, no meditation, none of those Eastern religions. We’re just gonna be talking about Jesus. Th demons don’t like that name. I’ll tell right now, if you got demons inside you, they’re not gonna like it. (before Slow Train)

Thank you, all right! I feel better now. I wanna introduce you to a young lady you can see in the flesh and been around a while and she sings for you called Miss Clydie King. She's gonna sing a song for you called "Calvary". Whether you know it or not you're all free. I know that some of you don't feel free, but you are. I can tell you right now that you've got an edge to be free because of what Jesus did at Calvary.

Thank you. I don't know if any of you have seen me before or not. I know I been through here before. I think it was, I think it was sometime in 1964. Anyway, I was singing some songs back then. I remember singing a song called Desolation Row, that's right! You're clapping now, you weren't clapping then! No, you weren't clapping then! I don’t know if the same people where there, but it was "What's he singing about?" You did not understand what I was singing then, I don't think I did either. Ha ha. I understand now pretty much what I'm singing about. It must have took a while for Desolation Row, Maggie's Farm, Subterranean Homesick Blues, all that stuff to really catch on. Because it wasn’t accepted very well at the time. But I’m always prepared for adversity. I was always prepared back then and now I’m even more prepared. All right, but lot of people they talk about Jesuses like they profess that they’re committed to the Lord. Well, I tell you now there's a lot of different types of Jesuses that they profess that they’re with. But there is only one Jesus. All eyes shall see him, every knee shall bow. The Jesus that have defeated the Devil. If you look onto Jesus you gotta look onto the Cross. All the Jesuses that will give you all the things you want, in your earthly life, forget about that Following Jesus is no easy trip, but it’s the only trip. I’m afraid to say, I’ve seen a lot of different kinds of other trips. You may not ever hear that name again. I know not long ago I had never heard of Him myself. Nobody ever told me that Jesus could save me. I didn't think I needed to be saved. I thought I was doing just fine. Well now, anyway, you know we live in dangerous times. Well, Jesus is prepared for that, he knew all about it. Right, I don't know what you're hanging on to. We're hanging on to a Solid Rock, made before the foundation of the world. The times´ coming when you’re gonna need something sort of like that. There’s gonna be a lot of delusion coming at you. Y

On the keyboards tonight Spooner Oldham, from Muscle Shoals Alabama. On keyboards also Terry Young. From Little Rock, Arkansas Fred Tackett on lead guitar tonight. From Tulsa Oklahoma on the drums tonight, give him a warm hand, Jim Keltner. Tim Drummond from Cincinnati Ha ha. A man who's been around for a while. We been wanting to play with each other for at least 40 years now. Finally together in the same band Mr. Tim Drummond. From Dallas, Texas Miss Clydie King. From Houston Texas, Gwen Evans. From San Francisco now Mary Bridges, also from San Francisco, Mona Lisa Young. From Nashville, Tennessee, remember that girl who told you the story about Jesus before. Her dad is a preacher. She knows all about Jesus. Remember that name now. I can’t impress it upon your enough, I really can’t. If you got troubles, he'll take your troubles. You got to be delivered, he'll deliver you. If you’ve got money problems, health problems, confusion, deception, marital problems of any kind. Regina McCrary. (before Are You Ready?)

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