When I wrote him that I loved this song as a child, he wrote back that he remembered playing on
This song, so well.

On drums was Jim Gordon, who had played on Pet Sounds and would go on to work with John Lennon, George Harrison, Traffic, Steely Dan and Frank Zappa.

https://www.musicradar.com/artists/guitarists/the-song-bob-dylan-called-the-greatest-ever-written-the-story-of-wichita-lineman

... this is one of my guilty pleasures, I'd never own the record, but if it were on the radio pulling into my driveway, I'd listen through before getting out of the car.

I just tried to find a thing I last saw at a underground midnite cinema film that had a psychedelic rock band that had Glen Cambell playing steel guitar. Can't find it, but I'll never forget it. He looked just like he always did, Saturday night Texas shit kicker.

Cambell was in the wrecking crew and this is a band he was in in '68: