Bob Dylan Johnny Cash Dylan/Cash Sessions source: Studio outtakes & soundboard Columbia Records Studio (Nashville, TN) February 17-18, 1969 1. One Too Many Mornings 2. Good Ol' Mountain Dew 3. I Still Miss Someone 4. Careless Love 5. Matchbox 6. That's All Right Mama 7. Big River 8. Girl From The North Country 9. I Walk The Line 10. You Are My Sunshine 11. Ring Of Fire 12. Guess Things Happen That Way 13. Just A Closer Walk With Thee 14. Blue Yodel #4 15. Blue Yodel #5 Johnny Cash Show (Nashville, TN) Grand Ole Opry (Ryman Auditorium) May 1, 1969 16. I Threw It All Away 17. Living The Blues 18. Girl From The North Country Nashville Skyline quadrophonic mixes 19. Nashville Skyline Rag 20. I Threw It All Away 21. Peggy Day 22. Country Pie 23. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You ============================================ various bits of info dragged up from the web -------------------------------------------- Review: The outtakes are great fidelity studio recordings, but the performances are very loose, first time trys. This is a 'must-have' disc for historical reasons, but it will probably not be one that you will want to play every day. Information: Source / Venue: CBS studios, Nashville, TN February 17-18, 1969 Plus: Nashville Skyline quadraphonic mixes Manufacturer / Catalog No. Spank / SP 106 Released: 0000 Quality: 9 stars Bobsboots # BB-d42 Quad: I still have my Nashville Skyline quadraphonic LP. For those of us who can remember the experience, this disc can approximate it when played through a surround sound system. If you're lost about the 'Quad' thing, it was a late '60's experiment that never caught on. Long before surround sound was conceived, the idea was to have four completely separate channels of music emanating from four equidistant speakers. For instance, the drums could be behind left, the bass behind right, lead instruments front left, vocals and rhythm guitar front right. The effect of various quad discs ranged from mildly surreal to annoyingly inept. As with the surround system, it required the purchase of an amplifier that could reproduce the desired effect. Few chose to scrap their amplifier for this new technology, and the fad quickly went away. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Country and rockabilly legend Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan have a long history of mutual admiration for one another. They first met at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, and went on to record a session together in Nashville in 1969. The normally TV-shy Dylan even appeared on a Cash television special taped at the Grand Ole Opry in 1969. Cash and Dylan's duet on "Girl Of The North Country" was featured on Dylan's groundbreaking country-rock effort "Nashville Skyline", for which Cash wrote the Grammy Award-winning liner notes. At the show, Cash and June Carter Cash, his wife and longtime musical partner, teamed up for a surprisingly celebratory, down-home version of "It Ain't Me, Babe," a song from "Another Side Of Bob Dylan" that Cash took up the charts in 1964, well before the Turtles turned it into a pop smash in 1965. ----------------------------------------------------------------- This failed attempt to produce an album between Dylan and Cash resulted in some interesting things, but overall I would have to say this session is pretty dismal. It's really more of a Johnny Cash session, although Dylan is certainly interested and having a good time. Only two songs performed here are by Dylan and both are old at that. The rest are songs long a part of Cash's repertoire, songs familiar to both Dylan and Cash, and for good measure one of Carl Perkins' tunes. Perkins sits in on this session, by the way. The most successful tracks here are One Too Many Mornings (two versions - both are a lot of fun), Girl From the North Country (which was released on Nashville Skyline), Big River, and Careless Love. Blues Yodel No. 5 is a lot of fun because it gives Dylan a chance to yodel! The rest of the tracks are mostly impromptu jams that never quite come together despite Cash's earnest attempts to get Bob to open up a little more. Dylan, for his part, seems content to sing a sort of "harmony" to Cash's lead vocals. Dylan's harmonies tend to be a little limited and would have sounded better if he hadn't even attempted to sing at all. The songs mentioned above as relative successes tend to be those where the lead vocal duties are traded off. One Too Many Mornings, for instance, changes keys with each different verse sung by the one or the other. The effect is nice and helps to relieve the monotony of the "chunk-a-chunk" sound that Cash is famous for. Although a lot of fun in places, this is NOT the place for a Dylan newcomer to start. --------------------------------------------- and a couple of links to check out..... http://www.bobsboots.com/CDs/cd-d42.html http://www.maths.univ-rennes1.fr/~dmartin/Dylan/html/boots/3/351DylanCashSessions.html *************************************************** * setlist & info created stuart feldman 12/29/01 * ***************************************************