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View Poll Results: what do you think of Dylan`s Nashville Skyline album
Excellent 9 56.25%
Good 4 25.00%
OK 3 18.75%
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Old 09-21-2011, 09:48 PM   #1 (permalink)
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This is a thread to talk about Bob Dylan`s well-known album:-

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"Nashville Skyline"- Bob Dylan

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An important album in Dylans' career. Dylan had been taken over by ego till God made him have that motorcycle crash.
Dylans' oversized ego crashed at the same time. When he surfaced, he was more grounded and more real. He came back with the superb rootsy classic John Wesley Harding which featured some of his best songs
The album closed with a country love song "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" which was a prequel to "Nashville Skyline", his album of simple country songs in which his voice sounded better than ever accompanied by Nashvilles top players
The ego was gone. Here was a man making music. And it sounded good
This album was recently selected by the Folk And International Roots Album Club, but, of course everybody`s comments are welcome.

So, what do you think ? How does this album compare with Bob`s other work ? It`s an old album; has it dated well, does it bring back memories for you ? What are the best or worst things about it ? If you`d been in the studio with Bob at the time, would you have had any advice for him ?

Another question is, can anybody upload an image of it for us ?
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Old 09-21-2011, 10:58 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Another question is, can anybody upload an image of it for us ?
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I did enjoy this album. I found myself tapping my feet to some amiable tunes. I can't say Dylan's vocals were a selling point and on some tracks he nearly lost me but overall not a bad listen.
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Old 09-22-2011, 12:40 AM   #3 (permalink)
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it's lurvely

and i think the voice he adopted for this album is beautiful (he only sang like that again on a coupla songs off Self-Portrait)

my only gripe? it's too short (a little under 40 minutes)
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Agree with Il Duce. A lovely album. My fave track is "Tonight I'll Be Staying here With You". I love his voice on this album- wish he sang like that more often
Some great picking.
This would probably be in my Top 5 Dylan Albums. My Top 5 Dylan would run something like this:
1.DESIRE
2.JOHN WESLEY HARDING
4.NASHVILLE SKYLINE
5.BOB DYLAN
Just about in there would be "NEW MORNING"
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top 5 dylan?

that's like asking my fave brand of chocolate

at the mo':-

John Wesley Harding
Oh Mercy
Time Out of Mind
Shot of Love
New Morning
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The elements that attracted me to Dylan in the first place, the folk purist with exceptional lyrics, have pretty much disappeared on this album, but I still fell in love with it immediately. Dylan`s new-found mellow delivery helped me through a rather lonely period in my life, so I completely agree with Moshe:-

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Agree with Il Duce. A lovely album. My fave track is "Tonight I'll Be Staying here With You". I love his voice on this album- wish he sang like that more often.
Personal favourites would be Girl of the North Country, I threw it all away and Tonight I`ll be staying here with you.

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If you`d been in the studio with Bob at the time, would you have had any advice for him ?
^ To answer my own question, after he recorded Country Pie and Peggy Day, I would have told him straight, "Come on Bob, you can do better than that! Go home and don`t come back until you`ve written something more substantial."


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This would probably be in my Top 5 Dylan Albums. My Top 5 Dylan would run something like this:
1.DESIRE
2.JOHN WESLEY HARDING
4.NASHVILLE SKYLINE
5.BOB DYLAN
Just about in there would be "NEW MORNING"
^ Aha ! The contentious topic of our favourite Dylans ! My favs might be:-

1. Freewheelin`
2. John Wesley
3. Nashville Skyline
4. Blood on the Tracks
5. Desire
6. Street Legal
7. Bootleg volumes 1-3

I`m surprised that New Morning is appearing in the favourite lists. Did it have some great tracks that I`ve forgotten ?
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I`m surprised that New Morning is appearing in the favourite lists. Did it have some great tracks that I`ve forgotten ?
it has a soothing rustic vibe about it

Day of the Locusts is one of his best songs
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Yes, I like the pastoral quality of New Morning. Title cut is an example & "Time Passes Slowly".
"Went To See The Gypsy" is a fine song, reputedly about meeting Elvis
I also like the mellowness of "Winterlude" & the "free jazz" vide of "If Dogs Run free"
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^ Thanks, guys, you`re right.
It does have a laid-back, "rustic vibe" which is quite charming, and unusual for Dylan. This cover of Time Passes Slowly, for instance, shows what a surprisingly tender song Dylan wrote :-



I also remember Sign In A Window as having some beautiful piano playing in it - so it`s an album you`ve convinced me to re-visit.
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