Comments for Dylan, Bob, Nashville Skyline

He completes the circle he started the previous year w/"John Wesley Harding." This is the album that turned everyone from The Dead to Judy Collins onto country music. The Johnny Cash duet is great.

The album is too long. He should shorten it (sarcasm).

ONE MORE NIGHT MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND MAN!

Uh huh huh huh ..., is it a COMEDY album or something?(Just a joke) If I listened to this album without any pre-informations, I couldn't believe this is Bob. Even though this is not 'Dylanic', it has its own value(the fact that he could've been a good Country singer). If you're a just ordinary Dylan fan, I'll not recommend this album. But it does not mean that it sucks.

A very solid album. Essential for Dylan fans. After digesting the hopelessness of "Blood on the Tracks" and the mysticism of "Time Out of Mind", "Nashville Skyline" and it's cliches are downright warming to the soul. "Lay Lady Lay" is the anthem here, though songs like "I Threw It All Away" and "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" are far from shabby. Unfotunately, at 27 minutes, it's the briefest of Dylan's albums, but it's by no means a poor effort.

Nashville Skyline, while not a bad album, is certainly not essential Dylan. In fact, I think that the next one, the much maligned Self-Portrait is better. There are some pleasant songs- "Tonight I''ll Be Staying Here With You" and "Girl From the North Country" is still a fine song. "Lay, Lady, Lay", though popular, is no Dylan classic, I don''t think. The best song, for me, is "I Threw It All Away" which I believe was a heartfelt confession of where Dylan saw himself when he wrote and performed it.

Dylan`s country album. Definitely different from a lot of his other work, Nashville Skyline is still quite an enjoyable album, provided you don`t passionately hate country music. The first track is a drunk Dylan duetting(in the loosest sense of the word) with an equally drunk Johnny Cash, and this really helps loosen you up for the rest of the album. The instrumental Nashville Skyline Rag sort of eases you into the country atmosphere, which gets kid of thick by the end. Dylan definitely brought great songwrighting to country music with this album, and some of these songs still get covered today. Highly recommended.