Nashville Skyline (Japan LP Sleeve) [Import] [Limited Edition]

Track Listings

1. Girl From The North Country

2. Nashville Skyline Rag

3. To Be Alone With You

4. I Threw It All Away

5. Peggy Day

6. Lay, Lady, Lay

7. One More Night

8. Tell Me That It Isn't True

9. Country Pie

10. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Japanese pressing of the singer/songwriter's 1969 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. CBS. 2004.

Tracks:

Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline Rag
To Be Alone With You
I Threw It All Away
Peggy Day
Lay Lady Lay
One More Night
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Country Pie
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

Customer Reviews:

Dylan Over Easy.......2007-07-05

For those who think you don't like Dylan, this one is worth a listen. The voice is almost velvety, the lyrics accessible, the songs melodious, and the musicianship superb. The most underrated of Dylan's albums, perhaps due to brevity or lack of "gravitas"

really good.......2007-04-10

This is the Bob Dylan album you play for people who don't believe the man is capable of writing good vocal melodies. This short album is FILLED with little songs that range from quiet and emotional to upbeat and friendly. All done in a country-rock style, too. Not a lyrical journey- a musical one. Worth buying.

Throw my troubles out the door.......2007-02-20

Is it really any wonder
The love that a stranger might receive.
You cast your spell and I went under,
I find it so difficult to leave.

A great reason to quit smoking lays within this CD...........2007-01-27

This should be an advertisement on why people should quit smoking. Dylan actually sings here, and he sings beautifully. His voice sounds so warm because he quit smoking during these sessions. As for the album, it's short, sweet, and charming, but it's not thought provoking or great Dylan. It passes the time very nicely. It's on the lower rungs of Dylan albums, but it's not awful or anything close to it. A slight, but charming work.

Nashville Skyline-A new sound for a young Bob Dylan.......2007-01-11

This album is one of Bob's most unique. Bob duets with Johnny Cash on North Country Woman, combining two of the most beautiful, eerie talented voices of all times. This album is very county based with very romantic lines in most of the tracks. Certainly one of his best. This album also focuses on the time that Dylan changes his voice to a little deeper, more country rooted mature Dylan. If you are a fan of Bob, I highly recommend this album. I fell in love the first night I put it on.

Average customer rating:

Top Shelf!
All you want and a lil bit more
Songs to LISTEN to
This guy should be way more well known...
worth it just for "Iron Mike" alone

East Nashville Skyline
Todd Snider
Manufacturer: Oh Boy
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East Nashville lies just across the Cumberland River from the mansions and skyscrapers Music Row built, but for Todd Snider it may as well be in outer space. On his seventh album, he paints a word-drunk, smart-ass, but always affectionate portrait of this gritty neighborhood--the dead-end dives, low-rent bungalows, and musicians barely scraping by--with a freewheeling comedic spirit as true to country as it is to rock & roll. He gives Mike Tyson a chummy hug, flips off the moral majority, fails to decipher "Louie, Louie," and turns an attempted suicide into a bittersweet recognition of human folly. Producer Will Kimbrough keeps the sound loose and tipsy, sometimes whittling back to a single acoustic guitar, which is just right for Snider's funniest, sharpest, and most life-affirming album yet. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

Top Shelf!.......2007-06-26

Todd's masterpiece IMHO.... Every song is killer! (The flow is flawless as well).

Love you brother... Keep up the good fight.
Peace, mOOn

All you want and a lil bit more.......2006-08-06

This is all you want from a great songwriter/singer and a lil bit more with quirky phrasing, catchy tunes, great playing and an outlook most of us who follow this young man can identify with.
This is another fine CD from a guy we want to hear more from right NOW!

Songs to LISTEN to.......2006-07-07

I have always loved gritty, witty lyrics that make you feel you have lived what the author sings about. Either that, or you swear he was there with you when you experienced this or that series of events. Todd Snider rolls up life with the burrs, warts, fall-down-laughing-on-the-ground funny times, and sheer tragedies into a few pithy lines and then just comes and attacks you with them. I just discovered this guy last year, and felt like I did when I discovered Townes Van Zandt. I think all his stuff is phenomenal
By the way, I AM a conservative Christian, right wing Republican, straight white American male. I and my compadres don't find the song nearly as offensive as some people here seem to hope. The whole genre of the song is a satire and poking fun at a class of people. I thought it accurate (in fact, he dead on nails us) and funny, not mean spirited or hateful. In that it is actually welcome, unlike so much of the screaming across todays cultural divides from both the right and left.
Any suggestions of reviewers for artists in same genre as Todd are HAPPILY received at eddie.gilchrist@gmail.com

This guy should be way more well known..........2006-02-24

Todd Snider is probably as close to Woody Guthrie as we're gonna get in this generation. The songs are clever or heartfelt or whatever, but they're always real. All of his CDs are great, this one especially.

worth it just for "Iron Mike" alone.......2006-02-01

Todd doing what he does best--story-telling troubadour and occasional rocker. Just a very fun CD all around, unless of course you're a Conservative Christian, Right Wing, Republican, Straight, White, American Male or you work in the Tillamook County Jail. Then you may not find it all that amusing.

Average customer rating:

Good album - can't believe the poor remastering
C & W Combined with Bob Dylan, What a Match!
Very good album, just not my favorite Dylan material
Oh Me, Oh My!
Bob Dylan Goes Country

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Girl From The North Country
Nashville Skyline Rag
To Be Alone With You
I Threw It All Away
Peggy Day
Lay Lady Lay
One More Night
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Country Pie
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

Customer Reviews:

Good album - can't believe the poor remastering.......2006-10-19

Man, I always thought the guys who complained about the CD remastering of Dylan's albums were full of themselves. However, I was quite surprised that nobody sees the problems with this remastering.

I borrowed the remastered "Nashville Skyline" CD from a friend a few years ago when he found out I had never heard the album before. I listened to it a few times and promptly returned it, stating that it was really disappointing. It sounded like a short, poorly-recorded album of Dylan with a weird voice. When I tracked down a good turntable, I picked up a bunch of Dylan vinyl to see how other albums fared in comparison to the CDs. I finally got around to "Nashville Skyline" last month, and discovered that the album was pretty good. The sound quality was much better than I remembered, even though my vinyl copy is pretty scratchy. Then, I ordered the remastered CD last week, thinking that I didn't give it a good chance the first time...............

Oh boy! What a tragedy. The remastered CD is truly as awful as I remember. I could not believe that the CD could have been worse, so I did a track by track analysis. Turns out the entire CD suffers from problems not found on the vinyl. The CD has noticeable tape hiss, with attenuation of the higher frequencies, and a complete lack of punch. The real travesty is that some tracks sound like they have been remixed, as some instruments have been relocated and brought up or down in level. A real travesty considering the vinyl mix is pretty good. The remastering problems really "cheapen" the album overall.

If you have this album on vinyl, just listen to the first few acoustic guitar chords and how they have a "bite" to them on the record that is gone on the CD. It only gets worse from there. This is the only remastered Dylan CD I have been disappointed with. I regret buying the CD and will wind up making a CD copy of my record.

C & W Combined with Bob Dylan, What a Match!.......2006-09-04

This is a young, well by today's standards, Bob Dylan crooning love songs. It must have been quite a shock to those fans of his who were used to him singing songs like, "Blowin' in the Wind," and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," to hear him singing "Lay Lady Lay" and "Girl From the North Country" with Johnny Cash. But surprise or not, this is a beautiful album and I'm betting that even way back then, many of his fans realized it. This is a Bob Dylan record that has stood the test of time (actually most of them do) and one you'll find as enjoyable today as your parents would have found it when it first came out.

Very good album, just not my favorite Dylan material.......2006-08-14

Having enjoyed Bob Dylan's first nine albums (recorded in the span of little less than six years) and his evolutions as an artist in the same timespan, I grew up to love Dylan's folk/rock style and upfront lyrics. So it's no surprise that "Nashville Skyline" struck me as a bit of a step back for him, though it involved a firm step into country territory and away from what had become his signature sound up to that point.

Maybe it was the combination of his voice sounding so different, the songs not being as "outspoken" and the fact that I just don't enjoy Dylan doing country as much as I love him as a folk rock singer, but the result is that I didn't enjoy "Nashville Skyline" as much as his earlier material.

Having said that, though, it may strike you that I am stil giving the album four stars. I wouldn't penalize it with less, because in spite of my personal preferences in terms of Dylan, it's still a solid album with production values that have withstood the test of time.

Oh Me, Oh My!.......2006-05-20

Dylan goes country and he does it well. This is a record far too short. Good songs here, but not enough of them. It seems like you've just put the CD in the player and it's over. But other than the fact that there isn't as much music here as on a normal Dylan CD, I have no complaints. Dylan is in fine voice here, sort of a country, high pitched twang that works very nicely. He tells these songs of love and loss with such sincerity, such honesty. But then he attacks everything he does that way, so it should be no surprise. This is just a wonderful, if a bit too short, record.

Bob Dylan Goes Country.......2006-05-20

This is a nice record, good to put on when you want to relax with a glass of wine and a good book. I know that's not the usual way one would listen to a Dylan record, but this is not a usual Dylan record. "Nashville Skyline" is full of uplifting, twangy songs, plus it has the Dylan mega hit on it, "Lay, Lady Lay which has always been a favorite of mine. I also like "Peggy Day" an awful lot as well as the duet Dylan sings with Johnny Cash, "Girl From the North Country." That song is just sublime. "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You," is another sublime song about the narrator's lost love that will pull a tear from the driest eye, if you're a sentimental girl like me anyway. Then there is "Tell Me that it isn't True" another song about lost love, well a love about to be lost anyway, as the narrator is asking his girl about another man. Yes this is, at least up to now, a totally new direction for Bob Dylan, but it's a direction I kind of like.

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C & W Combined with Bob Dylan, What a Match!
a dylan milestone: great album
Oh Me, Oh My!
Dylan Goes Country and it's Fun
A Pure Joy to Listen to

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Tracks:

Girl From The North Country
Nashville Skyline Rag
To Be Alone With You
I Threw It All Away
Peggy Day
Lay Lady Lay
One More Night
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Country Pie
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

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While Dylan is one of the prime creators of "country rock," Nashville Skyline is as close to a real country album as any he's ever made. Unfortunately, Dylan's decision to sing it in an un-nasal, un-Dylanesque style leaves one of rock's greatest singers seriously handicapped, as if Ali had to box one-handed. As a result, this set can never be any better than its songs. When they're throw-aways ("Country Pie"), even all the great Nashville pickers on board can't help. But when they're good ("I Threw It All Away," "Lay Lady Lay"), they're unforgettable. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews:

C & W Combined with Bob Dylan, What a Match!.......2006-09-04

a dylan milestone: great album.......2006-04-05

I grew up listening to this album and it was essential listening on long car journeys. It is a piece of genius crossover by Dylan and was a hallmark of its time that lead to other artists, essentially bands such as the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, following in Dylan's direction that lead to the start of Country Rock. The highlights of this album are the opening track with Johnny Cash, Girl From The North Country, and I Threw It All Away, a great song about love and loss. The musicianship is excellent with Nashville's finest session muso's on display and Bob Johnston's usual production finesse.Don't take any notice of ignorant opinion saying Dylan sounds weird on this production. [...] This is an excellent piece of music.

Oh Me, Oh My!.......2006-04-02

Dylan Goes Country and it's Fun.......2006-04-02

A Pure Joy to Listen to.......2006-04-02

I love the guitar work on this record, especially on "Nashville Skyline Rag" and "Country Pie." I love the country flavor, but then I've always been a fan of country music. I'm a huge Dolly Parton fan and I like George Jones too. So, liking Bob Dylan as much as I do and since my husband has him playing in our house an awful lot, this tends to be one of my favorites of his. True there are no protest songs here, not hard driving rock, no secret messages, no songs that you can interrupt in a number of ways. This is a very straightforward record with very straightforward music that is just a pure joy to listen to.

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A Perfect Collection, Bob Dylan's Country Period -- Kind of
Three Records I Play All the Time
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Nashville Skyline the sole standout on this otherwise-lackluster compilation

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Customer Reviews:

A Perfect Collection, Bob Dylan's Country Period -- Kind of.......2006-04-02

My older brother thinks "John Wesley Harding" is the best Dylan album ever. Is it? I don't know. "Blood on the Track," "Desire", "Highway 61" and "Blonde on Blonde" are all records I like better, but right after them, I'd but "JWH" maybe tie it with "Oh Mercy." Don't get me wrong. JWH is a must own album. Not only because you can see here how he transitions into his country period with "Nashville Skyline" and "New Morning," but because it's a record that plays on in your head long after you've turned of the CD player. JWH was not only a change of direction in Dylan's music, but it was written while he was recovering from his motorcycle accident, so one could also assume his life was taking a new direction as well. I'm not sure about that, but I would think a long recovery would make you think about life and what it's all about, that's what this record seems to be about anyway. At least that's what I take away from it.

Dylan goes country on "Nashville Skyline" and he does it well. This is a record far too short. Good songs here, but not enough of them. It seems like you've just put the CD in the player and it's over. But other than the fact that there isn't as much music here as on a normal Dylan CD, I have no complaints. Dylan is in fine voice here, sort of a country, high pitched twang that works very nicely. He tells these songs of love and loss with such sincerity, such honesty. But then he attacks everything he does that way, so it should be no surprise. This is just a wonderful, if a bit too short, record.

Some of the best lyrics of Bob Dylan's career are tucked away on "New Morning, a record that sadly hasn't been as popular as some of the rest of his music. Maybe because it's a bit spiritual with the gospel singers who sing background on some of the songs. Maybe it's because some of the songs really are spiritual and Dylan makes no attempt to hide it, like he did so successfully on "John Wesley Harding." Maybe it's because he has a bit of that "Nashville Skyline" country voice some people (I'm not one of them) didn't like. But none of those are reasons to give this record a pass. If you are one of those who gave it a listen one time or two years ago, please take my advice and give it a listen now, because I think you'll find that you've misjudged this record. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. It'll be like discovering a brand new Bob Dylan record.

Three Records I Play All the Time.......2006-04-02

My favorite song on JWH is "Dear Landlord." It's a lament driven by a soulful piano that will reach right into your soul. You can just feel the desperation the singer is crying about. "Only a Hobo," is another song where Dylan sings from the view of someone less fortunate. "I've served time for everything except begging on the street." What a line. You can just see this hobo Dylan sings about, a shyster, con man, often down and out on his luck. A hobo without regret and some advice to give, "Stay free from petty jealousies, live by no man's code, and hold your judgment for yourself, lest you wind up on this road." Dylan's hobo, like Dylan himself, is a lot of things, but a beggar he is not. Then there is the excellent song about that western outlaw, turned somewhat of a saint in the title song of this record, "John Wesley Harding" is Dylan accurate in his portrayal of the outlaw, well he misspelled his name, maybe that's a clue. Dylan is always doing that, surprising us and fooling us. This is an excellent record, full of fine music, double entendres and maybe some simple advice on how to live your life, like these outstanding words, "Live by no man's code."

NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a nice record, good to put on when you want to relax with a glass of wine and a good book. I know that's not the usual way one would listen to a Dylan record, but this is not a usual Dylan record. "Nashville Skyline" is full of uplifting, twangy songs, plus it has the Dylan mega hit on it, "Lay, Lady Lay which has always been a favorite of mine. I also like "Peggy Day" an awful lot as well as the duet Dylan sings with Johnny Cash, "Girl From the North Country." That song is just sublime. "Tonight I'll be Staying Here With You," is another sublime song about the narrator's lost love that will pull a tear from the driest eye, if you're a sentimental girl like me anyway. Then there is "Tell Me that it isn't True" another song about lost love, well a love about to be lost anyway, as the narrator is asking his girl about another man. Yes this is, at least up to now, a totally new direction for Bob Dylan, but it's a direction I kind of like.

There are spiritual overtones on this NEW MORNING and that is fine with me. Bob Dylan has always worn his beliefs on his sleeve. He puts it all out there and if you don't like it, tough. Well, in this case I like this record just fine. Bluesy sometimes, jazzy sometimes and always with those Bob Dylan lyrics you can take at face value the way Dylan says you're supposed to, or you can read all kinds of things into his words. Did he mean this? Did he mean that? It seems Bob Dylan is like a chameleon, so many different things to so many different people, but that's also okay by me, because he has been making the best stuff to listen to on my record player and now my CD player for the last three decades.

A Super Collection.......2006-04-02

John Wesley Harding -- A Record that is Always New

I just love this record. A solid rocker with a country flavor. The music is tone down quite a bit from "Blonde on Blonde" but it's still got many songs with a driving beat. The most famous song on JWH has to be "All Along the Watchtower." Jimi Hendrix did such a great job with his cover of that song. Dylan himself, still plays it all the time, changing it as he's always changing himself. "As I Went Out One Morning", is my favorite. Dylan sings about what America as all about and how Tom Paine would be so disappointed if he were around today. That's my read on the song anyway, you may have yours. So many of Dylan's songs are open to different interpretations. My next favorite song is "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest." It seems that Dylan just loves to showcase his humor. There is just so much going on in this record, it's almost impossible to take in. I've been listening to JWH for years and years and it's always fresh and I always seem to be finding something new, a new way to look at one of these songs.

Nashville Skyline -- A Pure Joy to Listen to

I love the guitar work on this record, especially on "Nashville Skyline Rag" and "Country Pie." I love the country flavor, but then I've always been a fan of country music. I'm a huge Dolly Parton fan and I like George Jones too. So, liking Bob Dylan as much as I do and since my husband has him playing in our house an awful lot, this tends to be one of my favorites of his. True there are no protest songs here, not hard driving rock, no secret messages, no songs that you can interrupt in a number of ways. This is a very straightforward record with very straightforward music that is just a pure joy to listen to.

New Morning -- A Truly Fabulous Record

It's true he came from a small town in Minnesota, but Bob Dylan went on to conquer the world. He is the poet of more than one generation and some of his best stuff is on this records. "Went to See the Gypsy" and "Three Angels" are two of my favorites. The haunting "Ooo, Ooo, Ooo" (I don't know how else to describe them) vocals in the background of "If Dogs Run Free" are just chilling and they really set of the song which is my favorite song on the record. Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention "If Not For You", which is done just wonderfully on this record. I like the way George Harrison does it as well. In fact I just got the Bangledesh Video for my birthday and Bob and George perform it on the extras part of the video. It's just a fabulous song, one of many on this fabulous record.

Three Outstanding Countrified Records.......2006-04-02

John Wesley Harding - A Little Country, But Still a Rocker

What a change for Bob Dylan. First he was a folk singer, than a hard rocker and now it seems he'd turned direction, going a bit country. However, don't make any mistake, just because he's got country musicians, this is still a rocker and it's one of my top five favorite Dylan records. "John Wesley Harding" is sort of a western ballad that will have you stamping your feet. "As I Went Out One Morning" is a country rocker with a message. So are many of the other songs on this record.

Nashville Skyline - What a Shocker

Wow, what a shocker this record must have been when it came out. The opening song, a reworking of the lovely "Girl from the North Country" is nothing like the original. Sung as a duet with Johnny Cash, this song, like the rest of the record, is pure out and out country. Country all the way. But that's not necessarily bad. Dylan is great when he does folk, he is great when he does rock and he is great when he does country. I really love the instrumental "Nashville Skyline Rag," which kind of reminds me a bit of "The Cough Song," from Bootleg fame. I play this record an awful lot, usually right after I play JWH, in fact I have those two records on the same playlist on my iPod along with "New Morning." These records, for me at least, are very uplifting. I know back then, maybe a lot of Dylan's fans didn't think so, but I bet they all appreciate them now. I know I sure do.

New Morning - It's Like Nashville Skyline married John Wesley Harding

For me this record seems like a blend of "Nashville Skyline" and "John Wesley Harding." That's probably the best way for me to describe it and the blend works well. The first few times I listened to it I had a hard time with the female back up singers, but I'm used to them now, hardly hear them. I think "Time Passes Slowly." It does pass slowly, then like Dylan says, "it fades away. But this record will never fade away for me. I just love it. If you get a chance go to see the Gypsy and get a copy of this CD, you won't be disappointed.

Nashville Skyline the sole standout on this otherwise-lackluster compilation.......2006-02-25

Flame me if you will, but neither John Wesley Harding nor New Morning ever did much for me. The former seemed to me like a dull load of overtly-religous messages with occasional great songs thrown in just for good measure, and the latter a dull attempt to capture the joy of the domestic life. Only Nashville Skyline stands out here, in my mind. Though it isn't Bob's album by several country miles, it's still good fun. So just pick up Nashville Skyline and Greatest Hits Volume II.

Average customer rating:

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Nashville Skyline (Japan LP Sleeve)
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Peggy Day
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One More Night
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Country Pie
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You

Album Description

Japanese pressing of the singer/songwriter's 1969 album, packaged in a limited edition miniature LP sleeve. CBS. 2004.

Album Details

Limited Edition Japanese LP-STYLE Sleeve Replicating the Original Album Release Artwork and Style.

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C & W Combined with Bob Dylan, What a Match!.......2006-09-04

Oh Me, Oh My!.......2006-04-03

Bob Dylan Goes Country.......2006-04-03

A Pure Joy to Listen to.......2006-04-03

What a Shocker.......2006-04-03

Wow, what a shocker this record must have been when it came out. The opening song, a reworking of the lovely "Girl from the North Country" is nothing like the original. Sung as a duet with Johnny Cash, this song, like the rest of the record, is pure out and out country. Country all the way. But that's not necessarily bad. Dylan is great when he does folk, he is great when he does rock and he is great when he does country. I really love the instrumental "Nashville Skyline Rag," which kind of reminds me a bit of "The Cough Song," from Bootleg fame. I play this record an awful lot, usually right after I play JWH, in fact I have those two records on the same playlist on my iPod along with "New Morning." These records, for me at least, are very uplifting. I know back then, maybe a lot of Dylan's fans didn't think so, but I bet they all appreciate them now. I know I sure do.

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Three Outstanding Records in One Collection

The Collection, Vol. 4: Nashville Skyline/New Morning/John Wesley Harding
Bob Dylan
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ASIN: B0007X9UK6
Release Date: 2005-04-05

Tracks:

Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline Rag
To Be Alone With You
I Threw It All Away
Peggy Day
Lay Lady Lay
One More Night
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Country Pie
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

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If Not for You
Day of the Locusts
Time Passes Slowly
Went to See the Gypsy
Winterlude
If Dogs Run Free
New Morning
Sign on the Window
One More Weekend
Man in Me
Three Angels
Father of Night

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John Wesley Harding
As I Went Out One Morning
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
All Along the Watchtower
Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
Drifter's Escape
Dear Landlord
I Am a Lonesome Hobo
I Pity the Poor Immigrant
Wicked Messenger
Down Along the Cove
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

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Three Outstanding Records in One Collection.......2005-05-07

There is a great shot of Dylan circa 1970 or so on the cover of this box set. He's leaning on the back of an old black car, Guitar in hand wearing that same hat he had in that photo on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. In fact this photo looks like it came from the same session. Only in the Post shot the backgroud trees are green, somebody used Photoshop on the cover of this box and made 'em red. A great, eerie looking affect. Or maybe the shot was later in the day and the sun was going down. I don't know, but the cover of this box alone is worth the price as far as I'm concerned.

John Wesley Harding - Gritty, Course, Driving and Stark, with a Bit of Country

When this record came out a lot of Dylan's fans were upset, because that singer of songs so complex with images that stayed with you long after the song had end, seemed to have gone country. But it didn't long before they realized that the complexity was still here, even thought the backing musicians had changed. The stories, those incredible stories were still here. Just give a listen to "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" and you'll see what I mean. And the word weaver is still doing his magic here as well, again listen to "Frankie & Judas."

Yes, gone are the rock musicians, replaced by country guys, Charlie McCoy on bass, Kenny Buttrey on drums and they help Dylan deliver a kind of haunting sound that has lasted through the years, making this record sort timeless, holding up as well now as it did way back then.

My personal favorite on this masterpiece of music is "As I Went Out One Morning." To me it seems like Dylan is singing about America and how Tom Paine would be so disappointed if he were alive today. And what would Rock have been like had Jimi not been able to cover the excellent "All Along the Watchtower." Then there is that landlord, that wicked messenger, that lonesome hobo and that escaping drifter. Mr. Dylan conjures images with words the way Van Gogh did with a brush. This album, though a change, is one of the best.

Nashville Skyline - Country Bob, but Still Incredible

This record opens with a haunting version of "Girl from the North Country," which Dylan sings with Johnny Cash. Haunting to be sure, because any song sung by Mr. Cash was haunting, but this one, with Dylan using his new countrified voice was even more so, spooky. This song alone is worth buying the album for. "Girl" is followed by the instrumental "Nashville Skyline Rag," which I've heard said is a reworking of the instrumental "The Cough Song," which first appeared on the "Stealin'" bootleg. I don't know if that's true, but it's a doggone good guitar piece.

And, of course, everybody knows "Lay Lady Lay" which was kind of a top forty hit and is still played on classic rock stations all over the world. It's a good song, but I like "I Threw it All Away" and "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You," better. This is a country album. "John Wesley Harding" with its country musicians leaned that way, but "Nashville Skyline" got all the way there and Dylan would stay country for two more records (some would say three), then he'd burst back on the rock scene with a vengeance. Still, country or not, this is a five star piece of work. Yes, Dylan did country, but he did it very, very well.

New Morning - Like Dylan Himself, This Record is so Hard to Define

After JWH and Nashville Skyline (which I like a lot), Dylan came out with Self Portrait. There are a few gems on SP but a lot of it was considered pretty lackluster when it came out. However three decades later and I have to admit, I play it all the way through on occasion and I enjoy it, even that corny version of S & G's "The Boxer". Anyway it appears that Colombia was in a hurry to get something out after SP to buck up what they must have thought was Dylan's sagging career, so they came out with this excellent album.

For me New Morning works in every way possible. I love the music. I love Dylan's voice here. I really like the lyrics and the background singers just seem to add to the whole mix. Yeah, a few records down the road they might seem to get a little Motownish, but here they just add to the overall haunting, spooky, bluesy and maybe even a little jazzy feeling of this record. And you know what, there is even a little C & W here. Like Dylan himself, this record is so hard to define.

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A Perfect Collection, Bob Dylan's Country Period -- Kind of
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Three Fine Countrified Records
Mr. D Reinvents Himself for These Three

Nashville Skyline
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ASIN: B00005G8QN
Release Date: 2003-03-03

Tracks:

Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
Nashville Skyline Rag
To Be Alone With You
I Threw It All Away
Peggy Day
Lay Lady Lay
One More Night
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Country Pie
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

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A Perfect Collection, Bob Dylan's Country Period -- Kind of.......2006-04-02

Three Records I Just Love.......2006-04-02

A Terrific Collection.......2006-04-02

Three Fine Countrified Records.......2006-04-02

What a change for Bob Dylan. First he was a folk singer, than a hard rocker and now it seems he'd turned direction, going a bit country. However, don't make any mistake, just because he's got country musicians, this is still a rocker and it's one of my top five favorite Dylan records. "John Wesley Harding" is sort of a western ballad that will have you stamping your feet. "As I Went Out One Morning" is a country rocker with a message. So are many of the other songs on this record.

Nashville Skyline - What a Shocker

Wow, what a shocker this record must have been when it came out. The opening song, a reworking of the lovely "Girl from the North Country" is nothing like the original. Sung as a duet with Johnny Cash, this song, like the rest of the record, is pure out and out country. Country all the way. But that's not necessarily bad. Dylan is great when he does folk, he is great when he does rock and he is great when he does country. I really love the instrumental "Nashville Skyline Rag," which kind of reminds me a bit of "The Cough Song," from Bootleg fame. I play this record an awful lot, usually right after I play JWH, in fact I have those two records on the same playlist on my iPod along with "New Morning." These records, for me at least, are very uplifting. I know back then, maybe a lot of Dylan's fans didn't think so, but I bet they all appreciate them now. I know I sure do.

New Morning - It's Like Nashville Skyline married John Wesley Harding

For me this record seems like a blend of "Nashville Skyline" and "John Wesley Harding." That's probably the best way for me to describe it and the blend works well. The first few times I listened to it I had a hard time with the female back up singers, but I'm used to them now, hardly hear them. I think "Time Passes Slowly." It does pass slowly, then like Dylan says, "it fades away. But this record will never fade away for me. I just love it. If you get a chance go to see the Gypsy and get a copy of this CD, you won't be disappointed.

Mr. D Reinvents Himself for These Three.......2005-10-30

"John Wesley Harding" is another of those Dylan records that belongs in the top five. My dad told me that everybody was taken completely by surprise when "JWH" came out. Bob Dylan had come back from his motorcycle accident completely reinvented, but I don't know why his fans were so blown away, he'd reinvented himself once before, they should have just accepted it, or at the least gotten used to it, because Mr. Dylan has been reinventing himself for a long time now. Anyway this record was recorded with county musicians and has a country flavor to it, even though the songs like "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest," "All Along the Watchtower," "Down along the Cove" and the rest of the masterpieces on this album are anything but country. That'll come though, because Dylan reinvents himself still again for "Nashville Skyline."

Reinventing himself still again, Mr. Dylan has released a true country album with "Nashville Skyline." Gone are any hints of Dylan the protester, Dylan the rocker. This is pure country, purely enjoyable too. "Lay, Lady Lay," is the big hit from this album, but the eerily, haunting remake of "Girl From the North Country," done with the late Johnny Cash, is the song that sets the mood for this too short CD.

My dad says that when "New Morning" record came out that once again Dylan's fans were disappointed. I don't why though, because I love this record. Mr. D. plays a lot of piano on it and maybe he's no virtuoso, but he's plenty good. "If Not for You," made into a huge hit by Olivia Newton John and on of the best songs on George Harrison's "All Things Must Past," triple LP, is one of the best songs on the record. "Father of Night," is a gospel type number that tells or warns us, depending on your point of view, about Dylan's Christian period that we'll see a couple records on down the road. Dylan is different on this record, but then he's different on most of his records. He's not of those artists that's boringly the same, album after album, Dylan keeps growing and changing, sometimes we like him, sometimes we love him and sometimes we hate him. He's the poet of three generations and "New Morning has some of his greatest poems on it,

Reviewed by Stephanie Sane

Nashville Skyline/New Morning/John Wesley Harding

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A Perfect Collection, Bob Dylan's Country Period -- Kind of
Three Records I Just Love
A Terrific Collection
Three Fine Countrified Records
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Bob Dylan
Manufacturer: Sony
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The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan/The Times They Are A-Changin/Another Side Of Bob Dylan

ASIN: B000002AKE
Release Date: 1997-08-12

Tracks:

Girl From The North Country
Nashville Skyline Rag
To Be Alone With You
I Threw It All Away
Peggy Day
Lay Lady Lay
One More Night
Tell Me That It Isn't True
Country Pie
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

Tracks:

If Not For You
Day Of The Locusts
Time Passes Slowly
Went To See The Gypsy
Winterlude
If Dogs Run Free
New Morning
Sign On The Window
One More Weekend
The Man In Me
Three Angles
Father Of Night

Tracks:

John Wesley Harding
As I Went Out One Morning
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
All Along The Watchtower
The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest
Drifter's Escape
Dear Lanlord
I Am A Lonesome Hobo
I Pity The Poor Immigrant
The Wicked Messenger
Down Along The Cove
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

Customer Reviews:

A Perfect Collection, Bob Dylan's Country Period -- Kind of.......2006-04-02

Three Records I Just Love.......2006-04-02

A Terrific Collection.......2006-04-02

Three Fine Countrified Records.......2006-04-02

Mr. D Reinvents Himself for These Three.......2005-10-30

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Bob Dylan
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ASIN: B000EU1K46
Release Date: 2006-04-04

Album Description

Import coupling of Bob's 1969 album Nashville Skyline with John Wesley Harding (1967). Includes the song's 'Girl from the North Country', 'Tell Me That It Isn't True' and more. Sony. 2006.

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1. Girl From The North Country
2. Nashville Skyline Rag
3. To Be Alone With You
4. I Threw It All Away
5. Peggy Day
6. Lay, Lady, Lay
7. One More Night
8. Tell Me That It Isn't True
9. Country Pie
10. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You