 In April and May 1978 , Dylan took the same band and vocalists into <unk> Studios in Santa Monica , California , to record an album of new material : Street @-@ Legal . It was described by Michael Gray as , " after Blood On The Tracks , arguably Dylan 's best record of the 1970s : a crucial album documenting a crucial period in Dylan 's own life " . However , it had poor sound and mixing ( attributed to Dylan 's studio practices ) , <unk> the instrumental detail until a remastered CD release in 1999 restored some of the songs ' strengths . 
