Hello, my name is Ben Borrell and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that takes an in-depth look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record.

Thanks for joining us for episode two of season two. If you missed the first episode of this season on Time Out of Mind, you can listen back to that and all our previous episodes on Bob Dylanpodcast.com.

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Let's crack on with looking at an album that is fascinating and it marks yet another change in Bob sound,

something we've become used to in this period, but it was also a backdrop to a hugely altering personal life for Bob as well.

This is 1978's Street Legal.

I think we better talk this over.

Maybe when we both gets over,

you'll understand I'm only a man doing the best of I can

On paper this record has everything going for it

Bob had the winds in his sail

From Blood on the Tracks

A position he'd only strengthened

With its follow-up desire

Not to mention the basement tapes

Being placed in the

middle, which was slowly becoming the music fan's Dylan record. He should be in confident mood here.

However, all of this was undermined by his personal life. Around this time, he'd finally separated

from then-wife Sarah, a saga that had been played out over the last couple of album cycles.

It would end in an apparent violent altercation as she

discovered another woman round the breakfast table with her husband and children, leading to a quick

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