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Nashville Skyline (1969)
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Album Info:
A new collection of songs featuring the voice and guitar of Bob Dylan with Kenny Buttrey, Charles McCoy, Pete Drake, Norman Blake, Charlie Daniels and Bob Wilson and guest artist, Johnny Cash
Produced By Bob Johnston Engineered by Charlie Bragg, Neil Wilburn
"Of Bob Dylan"
There are those who do not imitate,
Who cannot imitate
But then there are those who emulate
At times, to expand further the light
Of an original glow.
Knowing that to imitate the living
Is mockery
And to imitate the dead
Is robbery
There are those
Who are beings complete unto themselves
Whole, undaunted,-a source
As leaves of grass, as stars
As mountains, alike, alike, alike,
Yet unalike
Each is complete and contained
And as each unalike star shines
Each ray of light is forever gone
To leave way for a new ray
And a new ray, as from a fountain
Complete unto itself, full, flowing
So are some souls like stars
And their words, works and songs
Like strong, quick flashes of light
From a brilliant, erupting cone.
So where are your mountains
To match some men?
This man can rhyme the tick of time
The edge of pain, the what of sane
And comprehend the good in men, the bad in men
Can feel the hate of fight, the love of right
And the creep of blight at the speed of light
The pain of dawn, the gone of gone
The end of friend, the end of end
By math of trend
What grip to hold what he is told
How long to hold, how strong to hold
How much to hold of what is told.
And Know
The yield of rend; the break of bend
The scar of mend
I'm proud to say that I know it,
Here-in is a hell of a poet.
And lots of other things
And lots of other things.
-- Johnny Cash
Comments
johnny & bob mis idolos
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esta grabacion me fascina ya que une dos de mis idolos johnny cash y bob dylan, ademas cada cancion tiene un gran aporte por los dos. la gran voz y personalidad de johnny y el talento para hacer canciones de bob.
Curiouser and Curiouser...
The five stars are for the album itself, not the fact that when I select "One More Night" from the album playlist, I am treated to "Peggy Day" instead. I love "Peggy Day," but would like to be able to play "One More Night," too. That said, I think the website overall is great! I'm inspired to spend entirely too much time here, spinning virtual vinyl. Thanks!
buen rollo
es un disco agradable
bien grabado
y lo bueno, si breve ...
y mira que no me gusta el country
The gentle voice...
I'm going to have to go ahead and give this the full five stars of "awesome." I admit I have always been a sucker for "Lay, Lady, Lay;" long before I knew who Bob Dylan was and that Nashville Skyline was an album. But after discovering the man and the album I can with credibility say that I'm not just a sucker...you really can have your cake and eat too.
First of all I don't think of this as a "country album." I just think of it as a "Bob Dylan album."
To me it is one of the more "fun" albums. Songs like "Nashville Skyline Rag" and "Country Pie" seem like a good ole' time.
"Girl of the North Country" is only a hint of gold that lies with the mixture of Dylan/Cash. Their voices play off of one another beautifully.
I love "Peggy Day." To be in love before you even know her name. To recognize the differences in the night and day of Peggy. One of my personal favorites.
"I Threw It All Away," a great contrast to staying all night...throwing away love and what could have been. It's not angry, but calm in the reassurance that one should hang on to what one has.
I won't provide my opinion for each song, but I would just like to say that personally I think this an excellent album and would highly recommend it.
You can find the hat (on the album cover) in London's Hard Rock Cafe...and if you are nice they will let you put it on your own head.
In most cases, I like the
In most cases, I like the versions of songs that appear on this album better after he re-worked them into different styles during various live phases of his touring career. Many of them have had some staying power.
Dave
Country?
Aside from the title and Johnny Cash's presence, it doesn't sound too country to my ears. Maybe not as country as say, Sweetheart of the Rodeo. We are introduced to Dylan's Nashville "croon" which will throw many listeners off balance. Maybe not as essential as previous work, but good stuff.
I don't like country
It has never been an interesting album to me, but it might be because it's a country album and I've been never interested in country (by the way: why so many times I've found all Dylan albums in the country section of the shops if it's the only country album he's made?). I think the songs are poor, except Lay, lady, lay and a good version of Girl of the north country with Johnny Cash that doesnt' match the album. The rest is prescindible to me. Surpring change in his voice.
Nashville Skyline
Apparently Bob’s balladeering, acoustic trio phase only lasted the one album, John Wesley Harding, and once again it’s off to something new. “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” wasn’t a fluke, it was an omen. Here Dylan’s trying his hand at making music as a business. Even though at this point he’s a happily married family man, Bob’s songs celebrating love found (“Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You”, “To Be Alone With You”, “Peggy Day”) sound no more intimate and personal than the songs lamenting love lost (“I Threw It All Away”, “Tell Me That It Isn’t True”). He’s trying to emulate the Tin Pan Alley, Brill Building, and Nashville’s Music Row School of songwriting. Detached, popular, mechanical. The thing that makes the album work is how bad he is at being this kind of songwriting hack. His earnestness at trying to write a good, commercial, popular song is almost enduring. Musically – well, I really don’t like country music, but I don’t mind it so much here. Sure, the duet with Johnny Cash (“Girl From North Country”) takes one of my favorite Dylan tunes and drains most of its beauty. Dylan also showcases his first instrumental, “Nashville Skyline Rag”. While normally I would laud such a move, this ditty is little more than a jam – which since it’s being performed almost entirely by session musicians, shows off little originality or insight. The tune “Country Pie” is so off its attempts to describe domestic bliss that it almost seems like one of Bob’s weirder Blonde On Blonde kind of moments. It’s my favorite on the album. The other real classic is “Lay Lady Lay” with it’s unusual cowbell/bongo percussion, subverts the otherwise stereotypical country sound, helping make it stand out all the more. I’ve got to say that it’s sub-30 minute running time also makes this trip into the actual Nashville sound that much more endurable.