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Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline (1969)

Track listing:
  1. Girl From The North Country 3:41
  2. Nashville Skyline Rag 3:11
  3. To Be Alone With You 2:06
  4. I Threw It All Away 2:22
  5. Peggy Day 1:59
  6. Lay Lady Lay 3:16
  7. One More Night 2:20
  8. Tell Me That It Isn't True 2:39
  9. Country Pie 1:36
  10. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You 3:19

Notes

John Wesley Harding suggested country with its textures and structures, but Nashville Skyline was a full-fledged country album, complete with steel guitars and brief, direct songs. It's a warm, friendly album, particularly since Bob Dylan is singing in a previously unheard gentle croon — the sound of his voice is so different it may be disarming upon first listen, but it suits the songs. While there are a handful of lightweight numbers on the record, at its core are several excellent songs — "Lay Lady Lay," "To Be Alone With You," "I Threw It All Away," "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You," as well as a duet with Johnny Cash on "Girl From the North Country" — that have become country-rock standards. And there's no discounting that Nashville Skyline, arriving in the spring of 1969, established country-rock as a vital force in pop music, as well as a commercially viable genre.