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Electric
Rhythm Guitar & Lead Vocals - Bob Dylan
Drums - Jan Wallace
Bass Guitar - Jerry Scheff
Lead Guitar - Billy Cross
Keyboards - Alan Pasqua
Percussion - Bobbye Hall
Tenor and Soprano Saxophone - Steve Douglas
Rhythm Guitar (Background Vocals) - Steven Soles
Violin & Mandolin - David Mansfield
Background Vocals - Carolyn Dennis, Jo Ann Harris, Helena
Springs
Trumpet (Is Your Love in Vain?) - Steve Madaio
All Songs Written by Bob Dylan
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Recorded at Rundown Studios, Santa Monica, California.
Dylan's
last pre-Christianity batch of tunes, STREET LEGAL
achieves a comfortable balance between the staid
professionalism of the same year's live recording AT
BUDOKAN and the rough-and-ready aesthetic of previous
albums like DESIRE. As was often the case in his
post-BLOOD ON THE TRACKS records, some of the most
effective tunes on STREET LEGAL are those that he seems to
have labored over least. A good example is the way the
simple 12-bar blues of "New Pony" eclipses the
more elaborately constructed opener "Changing of the
Guards."
Naturally, that's not to say Dylan's vaunted wordplay had
hit a valley on STREET LEGAL. Anyone who can rhyme
"where we're headin'" with
"Armageddon," as he does on "Senor (Tales
of Yankee Power)," plainly has more than a few
lyrical tricks left up his sleeve. Those searching for
subtext in the tunes here may note the evidence of a
spiritual turmoil that would soon lead to Dylan's
theological metamorphosis.
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