January 13, 2008

Into the vault

I don't have a lot of country music in my music collection, but I do have a few vinyl albums. Nashville Skyline was probably the first pure country album I ever bought, and I'm sure I was surprised when I heard it. I'd bought it because it was a Dylan album (a completist even in my 20s!), and to hear him sing this style of music was a revelation. It's got some great songs on it, including "Lay Lady Lay" and "Girl From the North Country," the latter a duet with Johnny Cash.

Wikipedia's entry for the album has some interesting background on Cash's involvement with the record. He'd been recording in a studio in the same building, dropped by to listen, and ended up recording a whole slew of duets with Dylan, none of which have ever been released, although some have made to bootlegged albums.

Posted by Linkmeister at January 13, 2008 12:13 PM | TrackBack
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