Nashville Skyline is great. I dig it. It is not serious, nut most of the songs are catchy. It goes to show how Bob never was only about music. He is a good melodist (or a good thief) or most likely both.
Come to think how many memorable melodies he have stolen or written? I would say that if we take other singer-songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Bob's melodies are great when you compare them with those. Seems like, after all, every good Dylan song includes some memorable musical twist, so he is not all about lyrics, after all.
I have no problems with Bob's voice on records but when he plays live, it's awful. Those old songs don't work at all nowadays. I don't know what happened to his voice, he should have done something for it.
Back in the sixties, his voice, contrary to rumors, was great. I can't get the opinion of some folks that he was a bad singer. He stayed usually in tune, he was able to express many different kind of emotions, he could change his tone when needed and he sounded humane. All that a great singer needs. Maybe not technically perfect, but the most important part of music is NOT on the notes and music is not about technical ability, it's about, well, something far greater than that.
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