The Slow Train Comin Sessions

[Jules]

I just decided to open this thread because this record was always a kind of mistery to me...

I mean, we read that Bob Dylan attended a Dire Straits Show in NYC in 1979 and asked MK to perform in his record during a visit at backstage, but...

But Slow Train Coming was produced by Jerry Wexler and Barry Beckett, both producers of Dire Straits

[JF]

You have a response here :

http://www.mk-guitar.com/2008/11/05/mark-knopfler-on-bob-dylan-slow-train-coming/

[Fat Bob]

According to Clinton Heylin in "Behind The Shades" Dylan attended a Dire Straits show at the Roxy in LA on 29th March '79 after he had heard "Sultans of Swing" and after the show approached Mark to ask if he would play on his (Dylan's) next album. Heylin goes on "Knopfler, unaware of its contents, just wanted to know when". In Heylin's book it appears that Jerry Wexler was approached after this- so that seems to contradict what is in the link above.

You pays your money and you takes your choice....

[Pottel]

Did I not post a YouTube link here not too long ago with Jerry Wesley talking about those sessions, and was it not he who proposed mark? Where bob's reply then was something along the line of"yeah he does me best" or something alike....?