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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
Captain In Charge - Don DeVito
Second In Command - Arthur Rosato
Queen Bee - Mary Alice Artes
Secretary of Goodwill - Ava Megna
Champion of all Causes - Larry Kegan
Recorded By - Filmways/Heider
Biff Dawes - Engineer
With - Dennis Mays, Les Cooper, Billy Youdelman, Paul
Sandweiss, Doug Field, Jim Seiter
Mastering Engineer - Stan Kalina, CBS Recording Studios,
New York
Special Thanks for Helping Out
Bob Ludwig
Louis Lind
Bob Meyers
Rod Davis
Gary Shafner
Lou Kemp
Marty Feldman
Dick Curtis
David A. Braun
Larry Dur
Biff Dawes
Don Williams
Barbara Moldt
Photography - Cover & Liner, Howard Alk
Art Direction - Tim Bryant/Gribbitt
Album Design - George Corsillo/Gribbitt
In Memoriam: Emmett Grogan
Management - Jerry Weintraub/Management III, Beverly
Hills, California
David Mansfield and Steven Soles Appear Courtesy of Arista
Records
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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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