This record came out in 1983 and is considered a return to more secular songs after his three evangelical records but some of the songs still deal with religion. I remember watching the video for “Jokerman” when living in Hull and thought it was an OK song but it didn’t make me rush out and buy the album. Then in the early 90’s,living in Philadelphia,I heard the song “I and I” late one night on the radio and really liked it. A few years after that, living in Reading, I saw a used copy for $4 and picked it up. On this record he has a rhythm section of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare with Mark Knopfler and Alan Clark on guitar and keyboards from Dire Straits and former Rolling Stone guitarist Mick Taylor playing some slide guitar. The record starts of with “Jokerman” and is followed by “Sweetheart Like You” sounding a bit like a Dire Straits song. “Neighborhood Bully” is a rockin’ little number about the history of Israel as a nation. Side two is the better side,”Man Of Peace” seems to be about the end times with a line in the chorus being “Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace”. “Union Sundown” is about outsourcing,corporate greed,and corrupt unions. “I And I” the best song on the record and another of my favorite Dylan songs has some nice guitar from Knopfler and piano from Clark. The last song on the record “Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight” is another love/breakup song. The inner sleeve has a picture of Dylan on a hill above Jerusalem supposedly taken by his ex-wife.