Nashville Skyline (1969)

1. Girl from the North Country - (with Johnny Cash)
2. Nashville Skyline Rag
3. To Be Alone with You
4. I Threw It All Away
5. Peggy Day
6. Lay Lady Lay
7. One More Night
8. Tell Me That It Isn't True
9. Country Pie
10. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You

Notes and Reviews

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Reviews:

From the The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia by Michael Gray:

"Nashville Skyline [1969] The ninth album, and though not Dylan’s first from Nashville—much of
Blonde on Blonde had, amazingly, been recorded there—this was his first sustained leap into country
music. Again a massive contrast to the previous album, John Wesley Harding: down-home instead of
visionary, warm instead of severely ascetic, optimistic instead of dark, and more under the influence
of sunshine and the big sky than of catechism and nemesis. It also offered a complete change of
language: away from the impressionistic and the allegorical—away from the distinctive complexity
of his previous work, using a language of extreme simplicity.

It was quite a shock, on a first playing of Nashville Skyline, back in 1969, to hear Dylan singing
lines like ‘For your love comes on so strong’; and then in the middle section of the same song
(‘Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You’) coming on even stronger with this ‘new’ language: ‘Is it
really any wonder / The love that a stranger might receive? / You cast your spell and I went under / I
find it so difficult to leave.’"

Best Song: I Threw It All Away

Favorite Lyric: "Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round,
Love and only love, it can't be denied"
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