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Produced by Don Was and David Was and Jack Frost
Engineered and Mixed by Ed Cherney
Assistant Engineers: Daniel Bosworth, Jim Mitchell, Steve
Deutsch, Brett Swain, and Judy Kirshner
Studios: Oceanway, Record Plant, The Complex, Sorcerer
Production Coordinator: Marsha Burns
Special Thanks To: Carole Childs
For Gabby Goo Goo
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UNDER THE
RED SKY
brought to a close the transition period that was
Bob Dylan's post-Christian 1980s. Having spent most of
that time looking for a voice in the rocking gospel and
blues, stomping R&B and rock stylings he had long
since mastered, Dylan decided to just go garage.
Obviously, with Don and David Was producing, the end
product carries a more professional veneer than that
description may imply. But as titles like "Wiggle
Wiggle" and "TV Talkin' Song" suggest (and
the tunes live up to their simplistic names), the mindset
of these sessions seems more geared toward getting the
bard's ya-yas out than building a masterwork. Of course,
in perfectly Dylanesque fashion, amidst all these
second-hand pieces lies a gem like
"Unbelievable," a wordy, doomsday-culture rocker
in the spirit of "When the Night Comes Falling From
the Sky." Afterwards though, Dylan turned his back on
songwriting for six years, rightfully fearing that
schoolboy rhymes were not what the world sought from him.
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