When this album came out in late 1979, I used to look at this copy that was on display on the wall of the old Electro King record store outside the old Fiesta Carnival in Cubao. I wasn’t into Bob Dylan as New Wave was in full swing.
And I guess that’s the word — swing. The first single was “Gotta Serve Somebody” (Dylan won a Grammy for that song). but the song that was popular was “Precious Angel”. What attracted me to the song was the guitars that seemed so familiar. Yes, it was Dire Straits’ Mark Knopfler playing along with drummer Pick Withers. Now, I was into Dire Straits especially their big hit “Sultans of Swing”. So I picked up Dylan’s Slow Train Coming at Electro King. I love Dire Straits and I should thank them because they provided an opening to Dylan.
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