Although released in the early-80's, the music and songwriting on Bob Dylan's secular return, recall more of a mid-70's feel. A very direct and evocative collection, ripe with elegant imagery, potent poetics and moving melodies, the Mark Knopfler co-produced affair helped revitalize Dylan for a new generation of listeners and features a stellar line-up of musicians, which in addition to Knopfler, included Mick Taylor, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare and Alan Clark. Reaching the Top 20 in the US and the Top 10 in the UK, the Gold-certified record was seen as one of Dylan's finest artistic achievements since Blood on the Tracks (1975) and most commercially viable until Oh Mercy (1989).