>>126791012>>126791013>>126791037>>126791271No one cares, but my reason for choosing Nashville Skyline, other than the fact I love country music, is because it's arguably his most interesting record. Norman Blake, Charlie McCoy, Charlie Daniels, Johnny Cash and his band, and other big Nashville names played on this one. In my opinion, this translates to some of the best picking on his records - I prefer it to The Band and co. In a sense, it makes it a more "authentic" outing into country than many of his peers who tried likewise at the time. Vocally, he never does anything like it again, and whether it's liked or not, it is very distinct. He was somewhat warmly welcomed, probably somewhat cynically, into the notoriously standoffish landscape of country. For example, other than getting a shot to play on Cash's show, he features as the first scene in Earl Scruggs and Friends, a brutally underrated and unseen documentary where Earl plays with several old and new faces (Doc and Merle Watson, the Morris Brothers, but then those like The Byrds, with Clarence White using his B-Bender, etc.). In Dylan's discography, I think this is the real oddity for many reasons. Plus it sounds pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6mEodcdQZQ