Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats

Description

After Bob Dylan came to Nashville in 1966 to record his classic album Blonde on Blonde, his embrace of Nashville and its unmatched session musicians—known as the Nashville Cats—inspired many other artists, among them Neil Young, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, and Paul McCartney, to follow. Around the same time, Johnny Cash was recruiting folk and rock musicians—including Dylan—to appear on his groundbreaking network television show, The Johnny Cash Show.

This book was published as a companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City and features more than twenty commissioned illustrations by noted artist and musician Jon Langford. This book also includes 240 rare photographs and celebrates a time of great cultural vitality for Nashville, tracking the city’s music scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and illuminates Nashville’s rise as a world-class recording center.

The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum collects, preserves, and interprets the evolving history and traditions of country music. Through exhibits, publications, and educational programs, the Museum teaches its diverse audiences about the enduring beauty and cultural importance of country music. Letter from the Director

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Roseanne Cash

Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City by Pete Finney

Part 1 "It Ain't Me Babe": Dylan Comes to Nashville

Part 2 Music City Emerges

Part 3 Dylan: From Desolation Row to Music Row

Part 4 High Water Risin'

Part 5 You Ain't Going Nowhere

Part 6 Down in the Flood

Part 7 Listen to the Band: 1968

Part 8 Skyline and the Bloodlines

The Johnny Cash Show by Michael Streissguth

Nashville Cats Illustration by Jon Langford

Part 9 A Joyful Noise

Part 10 Sir Doug and the Joker

Part 11 Bob Johnston

Part 12 Dylan: Last Nashville Recordings

Part 13 Norbert Putnam and Quadrafonic Studios

Part 14 Tulsa, Naturally

Part 15 Paul McCartney

Part 16 Conclusion

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