Bob Dylan Nashville Skyline LP

Bob Dylan's ninth studio album was recorded in Nashville over 10 days in February 1969, with a group of local session musicians, and released just two months later. It contains one of his most beloved and successful songs in "Lay Lady Lay" as well as a duet with Johnny Cash on a new version of the early Dylan classic "Girl from the North Country." Other singles from the album include "I Threw It All Away" and "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You."

This release brings the album back in print in vinyl in its original stereo version.

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...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.