Arriving after the twin peaks of Blood on the Tracks and Desire, Street Legal features a set of songs with no connecting themes, and Bob Dylan replaced the sprawl of the Rolling Thunder Revue with a slick, professional big band featuring a horn section and several backing vocalists. The interesting thing about this 1978 release is that, despite the music and slick production, the songs are as dense as anything Dylan had written since before his motorcycle accident. So, Street Legal becomes an interesting dichotomy: although the arrangements might discourage close listening, the album is filled with songs that deserve attention. And Street Legal is fascinating for just that reason -- in another setting, these are songs that would have been hailed as near-masterpieces. Consequentially, it's not surprising that, while some consider Street Legal a missed opportunity, there are factions of Dylanphiles that find the album worth the time. [In 2003, Columbia/Legacy reissued 15 selected titles from Dylan's catalog as hybrid SACDs, playable in both regular CD players and Super Audio CD players. Each title is packaged as a digipak, containing the full original artwork. On each of the titles, and on each of the layers, the remastered sound is spectacular, a considerable upgrade from the initial CD pressings.] ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Bob Dylan (Guitar (Electric)), Paul Sandweiss (Assistant Engineer), Dennis Mays (Engineer), Don DeVito (Reissue Producer), Les Cooper & the Soul Rockers (Engineer), Billy Youdelman (Assistant Engineer), Ian Wallace (Drums), Steve Douglas (Sax (Tenor)), Alan Pasqua (Keyboards), Didier C. Deutsch (Tape Research), David Mansfield (Mandolin), Billy Cross (Guitar), Doug Field (Engineer), Howard Alk (Photography), Don DeVito (Producer), Steven Berkowitz (Reissue Producer), Jerry Scheff (Guitar (Bass)), George Corsillo (Design), Jerry Scheff (Bass), Greg Calbi (Mastering), Tim Bryant (Art Direction), Stan Kalina (Mastering Engineer), Bill Dawes (Engineer), Biff Dawes (Engineer), Steven Soles (Guitar (Rhythm)), Paul Sandweiss (Engineer), Carolyn Dennis (Vocals (Background)), Joel Bernstein (Photography), Dennis Mays (Assistant Engineer), Steven Soles (Guitar), Jim Seiter (Assistant Engineer), Jim Seiter (Engineer), Les Cooper & the Soul Rockers (Assistant Engineer), Gribbitt! (Art Direction), Stan Kalina (Mastering), Steve Madaio (Trumpet), Billy Youdelman (Engineer), Jo Ann Harris (Vocals (Background)), Doug Field (Assistant Engineer), Arthur Rosato (Assistant), Ava Megna (?), Bob Dylan (Vocals), David Mansfield (Violin), Steven Soles (Vocals (Background)), Bobbye Hall (Percussion), Helena Springs (Vocals (Background)), Steve Douglas (Sax (Soprano))
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