Poll: Nashville Skyline

wrong band dude

lol

Ken Buttrey on the drums really grooves this whole thing. And wtf with the weird percussion thing on the verses of "Lay Lady Lay"? Heard this song 500 times and never noticed it until today. It works, though.

Underrated: "Country Pie". This smokes!

"i threw it all away" is the best song ever

Not going to argue with that

I have just realized: "Bob's country voice" = Lefty Frizell

I dunno if Bob's ever copped to it (I doubt it) or if anyone pointed it out at the time (I also doubt it) but it seems really obvious in retrospect

also Brad otm, "I Threw It All Away" should've won this

Ken Buttrey on the drums really grooves this whole thing

otm, great drums on this thing

Brad and I on mind lock as usual -- on Monday I blasted it in the car.

funny timing -- i've been listening to all of dylan's albums in order. some of em are new to me and some i haven't heard in forever. i did know this album but barely remembered most of it. it's delightful, and even tho its brevity is part of its appeal i can't help but wish there were more of it. the cash/dylan duet was the bit i remembered best, but "i threw it all away" is far and away the standout for me now.

I Threw It All Away is all-time. As good as any country standard.

Threw>Tonight>LLL>Everything else.

"I Threw It All Away" juuuust verges on being one of Dylan's anonymous standards ("Emotionally Yours," "To Make You Feel My Love," "Forever Young") just universal enough to get blanket covers; but the bourbon-soaked singing is so marvelous.

man, what a good feeling i get with this album. is happy crooning Dylan secretly the best Dylan?

Could be---also some on New Morning, and Travelin' Throughhas some great outtakes from Skyline sessions, incl. alternates I prefer for their liveliness ("Country Pie" and "To Be Alone With You" are two of my faves on the LP, although a poll choice would have been impossible), some fun Cash covers, and the apparently complete encounter w him, talking and singing---either way, his voice is almost overwhelming, while he's just being friendly, eager to re-connect, while D.'s playing it cool, responding mostly through crooning. Also some good stuff from this era on Another Self Portrait and 1970.

And the Cash and other country covers on The Complete Basement Tapes, "Wallflower" duet w Sir D. on The Best of Doug Sahm's Atlantic Sessions, "A Fool Such As I" and maybe "Spanish Is The Loving Tongue" on Dylan. Maybe some others from that as well, yeah I said it.

LLL is so deep and mysterious

I do think this one and John Wesley Harding is Dylan's best singing. I've seen it postulated that because he quit smoking after the motorcycle wreck was why his voice was different on those two albums. Not sure if that is the case, but his voice is much clearer on these two albums.

Yeah, he credited that in an interview back then. A couple more country chestnuts: "My Blue Eyed Jane," on A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, really a good various artists trib, and maybe the only release on his Egyptian label, also, "The Love That Faded," on The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams: his music to Hank's words, as he could have done for the whole album, but he said it was too great a responsibility---another good v.a. set, nevertheless.