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Liner Notes

Tight Connection To My Heart

Bob Dylan - Keyboards, Vocal
Mick Taylor - Guitar
Tad Perlman - Guitar
Sly Dunbar - Drums
Robbie Shakespeare - Bass
Richard Scher - Synthesizer
Carol Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Peggi Blu - Backing Vocals

Seeing The Real You At Last

Bob Dylan - Guitar, Vocal
Mike Campbell - Guitar
Benmont Tench - Keyboards
Don Heffington - Drums
Bob Glaub - Bass
Bashiri Johnson - Percussion
Chops - Horns
David Watson - Sax Solo

I'll Remember You

Bob Dylan - Piano, Vocal
Madelyn Quebec - Vocal
Mike Campbell - Guitar
Howie Epstein - Bass
Jim Keltner - Drums

Clean Cut Kid

Bob Dylan - Vocal, Guitar
Ron Wood - Guitar
Benmont Tench - Piano
John Paris - Bass
Anton Fig - Drums
Carol Dennis, Queen Esther Marrow, Peggi Blue - Backing Vocals

Never Gonna Be The Same Again

Bob Dylan - Keyboards, Vocal
Carol Dennis - Vocal
Syd McGuinness - Guitar
Alan Clark, Richard Scher - Synthesizers
Robbie Shakespeare - Bass
Sly Dunbar - Drums
Queen Esther Marrow, Peggi Blue, Debra Byrd - Backing Vocals

Trust Yourself

Bob Dylan - Guitar, Vocal
Madelyn Quebec - Vocal
Mike Campbell - Guitar
Benmont Tench - Keyboards
Robbie Shakespeare - Bass
Jim Keltner - Drums
Bashiri Johnson - Percussion
Queen Esther Marrow, Debra Byrd, Carol Dennis - Backing Vocals

Emotionally Yours

Bob Dylan - Piano, Vocal
Mike Campbell - Guitar
Jim Keltner - Drums
Howie Epstein - Bass
Benmont Tench - Organ
Richard Scher - Synth Horns

When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky

Bob Dylan - Guitar, Vocal
Madelyn Quebec - Vocal
Sly Dunbar - Drums
Robbie Shakespeare - Bass
Al Kooper - Rhythm Guitar
Stuart Johnson - Electric Guitar
Bashiri Johnson - Percussion
Richard Scher - Synthesizer
Urban Bright Horn's - Horns

Something's Burning, Baby

Bob Dylan, Madelyn Quebec - Vocals
Ira Ingber - Guitar
Vince Melamed - Synthesizer
Don Heffington - Drums
Robbie Shakespeare - Bass
Richard Scher - Synthesizer

Dark Eyes

Bob Dylan - Vocal, Guitar and Harmonica

Studios: Cherokee, Power Station, Delta Sound, Right Track, Shakedown
Remix by Arthur Baker
Recording and Mix Engineer: Josh Abbey
Engineers: George Tutko, Judy Feltus
Cover designed by Nick Egan
Photography by Ken Regan

Album Notes

One album removed from his so-called "Christian" period, EMPIRE BURLESQUE foreshadowed Bob Dylan's studio modus operandi for the rest of the 1980s. It forsakes cohesive lyrical and sonic visions for the chance to be all things to all Dylan fans, many of whom proclaimed it as his greatest work since BLOOD ON THE TRACKS; thus, grumpy apocalyptic proclamations, statements of absolute faith (physical or spiritual?) and credos of self-awareness all get equal space. Yet, even as hip-hop producer Arthur Baker's heavily glazed mix makes all these songs digitally shine, the overall feel is of a songwriter committing every thought hastily to tape, lest the thought change shape.

And as these thoughts come pouring out of Dylan's head, the choir-like background vocals (some combination of female singers appears on over half the album's tracks) add a dimension of otherworldly testimony to his words. It seemed that, having found the righteousness of The Word, the bard of modern songwriting was now investing all his recordings with such zero-sum fervor.