Isn't *all* music-making an effort to rise above this wicked world and to work towards experiencing a heightened spiritual state?

Of course, none of us are perfect (even Bobby Z), so the words we use to give voice to our music are usually insufficiently specific about this aspect of our quest, or sometimes (but much less often) too much so.

That said, I'm loking forward to hearing this collection. I always liked "Gotta Serve Somebody," and I also fondly recall hearing Aaron Neville (a vocal stylist who can't NOT sound like church) doing some less-explicitly-religous early Dylan -- "Masters of War," maybe? Whatever it was, it was *too* tough...