STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - BOB DYLAN - NASHVILLE SKYLINE

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Good morning faithful readers and welcome back to the Friday edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again. It was on this day 52 years ago in 1969, that singer-songwriter, author and visual artist, Bob Dylan, released his 9th studio album, Nashville Skyline. Critics and fans seemed amazed by Dylan's submersion into country music and his different singing voice. The LP reached #3 on the Cash Box and Billboard 200 and #1 on the Record World charts and in the UK. "I Threw it All Away" (#85 Hot 100, UK # 30), "Lay Lady Lay" (#7 Hot 100, #5 UK), and  "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" (#50 Hot 100) were released as singles. Bob Johnston produced the Platinum selling disc for Columbia Records and guests included Johnny Cash, Charlie Daniels, and Charlie McCoy. I've included the liner notes, written by Johnny Cash below, as I felt they were worth including :

Of Bob Dylan: by Johnny Cash

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.

"Girl from the North Country" (duet with Johnny Cash) – 3:41

"Nashville Skyline Rag" – 3:12

"To Be Alone with You" – 2:07

"I Threw It All Away" – 2:23

"Peggy Day" – 2:01

Side two

"Lay Lady Lay" – 3:18

"One More Night" – 2:23

"Tell Me That It Isn't True" – 2:41

"Country Pie" – 1:37

"Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You" – 3:23

Bob Dylan – guitar, harmonica, keyboards, vocals

Norman Blake – guitar, Dobro
Kenneth A. Buttrey – drums

Johnny Cash – vocals and guitar on "Girl from the North Country", liner notes
Fred Carter Jr. – guitar
Charlie Daniels – bass guitar, guitar

Pete Drake – pedal steel guitar

Marshall Grant – bass guitar on "Girl from the North Country"
W. S. Holland – drums on "Girl from the North Country"

Charlie McCoy – guitar, harmonica
Bob Wilson – organ, piano
Bob Wootton – electric guitar on "Girl from the North Country"

Bob Johnston – production

Charlie Bragg – engineering
Neil Wilburn – engineering

Elliot Landy - photographer front cover
Al Clayton - photographer back cover