The Collection, Vol. 4: Nashville Skyline/New Morning/John Wesley Harding

The Collection, Vol. 4: Nashville Skyline/New Morning/John Wesley Harding Artist: Bob Dylan
Label: Sony
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 3


UPC: 827969399224
EAN: 0827969399224
ASIN: B0007X9UK6


Release Date: 2005-04-05

The Collection, Vol. 4: Nashville Skyline/New Morning/John Wesley Harding


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Tracks:

  1. Girl from the North Country - Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan
  2. Nashville Skyline Rag
  3. To Be Alone With You
  4. I Threw It All Away
  5. Peggy Day
  6. Lay Lady Lay
  7. One More Night
  8. Tell Me That It Isn't True
  9. Country Pie
  10. Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

Tracks:

  1. If Not for You
  2. Day of the Locusts
  3. Time Passes Slowly
  4. Went to See the Gypsy
  5. Winterlude
  6. If Dogs Run Free
  7. New Morning
  8. Sign on the Window
  9. One More Weekend
  10. Man in Me
  11. Three Angels
  12. Father of Night

Tracks:

  1. John Wesley Harding
  2. As I Went Out One Morning
  3. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine
  4. All Along the Watchtower
  5. Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest
  6. Drifter's Escape
  7. Dear Landlord
  8. I Am a Lonesome Hobo
  9. I Pity the Poor Immigrant
  10. Wicked Messenger
  11. Down Along the Cove
  12. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight

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  1. Collection 2: Freewheelin / Times Changin / Another Side of Bob Dylan
  2. Collection 3: Blonde on Blonde / Blood Tracks / Infidels

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Three Outstanding Records in One Collection.......2005-05-07

There is a great shot of Dylan circa 1970 or so on the cover of this box set. He's leaning on the back of an old black car, Guitar in hand wearing that same hat he had in that photo on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. In fact this photo looks like it came from the same session. Only in the Post shot the backgroud trees are green, somebody used Photoshop on the cover of this box and made 'em red. A great, eerie looking affect. Or maybe the shot was later in the day and the sun was going down. I don't know, but the cover of this box alone is worth the price as far as I'm concerned.

John Wesley Harding - Gritty, Course, Driving and Stark, with a Bit of Country

When this record came out a lot of Dylan's fans were upset, because that singer of songs so complex with images that stayed with you long after the song had end, seemed to have gone country. But it didn't long before they realized that the complexity was still here, even thought the backing musicians had changed. The stories, those incredible stories were still here. Just give a listen to "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" and you'll see what I mean. And the word weaver is still doing his magic here as well, again listen to "Frankie & Judas."

Yes, gone are the rock musicians, replaced by country guys, Charlie McCoy on bass, Kenny Buttrey on drums and they help Dylan deliver a kind of haunting sound that has lasted through the years, making this record sort timeless, holding up as well now as it did way back then.

My personal favorite on this masterpiece of music is "As I Went Out One Morning." To me it seems like Dylan is singing about America and how Tom Paine would be so disappointed if he were alive today. And what would Rock have been like had Jimi not been able to cover the excellent "All Along the Watchtower." Then there is that landlord, that wicked messenger, that lonesome hobo and that escaping drifter. Mr. Dylan conjures images with words the way Van Gogh did with a brush. This album, though a change, is one of the best.

Nashville Skyline - Country Bob, but Still Incredible

This record opens with a haunting version of "Girl from the North Country," which Dylan sings with Johnny Cash. Haunting to be sure, because any song sung by Mr. Cash was haunting, but this one, with Dylan using his new countrified voice was even more so, spooky. This song alone is worth buying the album for. "Girl" is followed by the instrumental "Nashville Skyline Rag," which I've heard said is a reworking of the instrumental "The Cough Song," which first appeared on the "Stealin'" bootleg. I don't know if that's true, but it's a doggone good guitar piece.

And, of course, everybody knows "Lay Lady Lay" which was kind of a top forty hit and is still played on classic rock stations all over the world. It's a good song, but I like "I Threw it All Away" and "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You," better. This is a country album. "John Wesley Harding" with its country musicians leaned that way, but "Nashville Skyline" got all the way there and Dylan would stay country for two more records (some would say three), then he'd burst back on the rock scene with a vengeance. Still, country or not, this is a five star piece of work. Yes, Dylan did country, but he did it very, very well.

New Morning - Like Dylan Himself, This Record is so Hard to Define

After JWH and Nashville Skyline (which I like a lot), Dylan came out with Self Portrait. There are a few gems on SP but a lot of it was considered pretty lackluster when it came out. However three decades later and I have to admit, I play it all the way through on occasion and I enjoy it, even that corny version of S & G's "The Boxer". Anyway it appears that Colombia was in a hurry to get something out after SP to buck up what they must have thought was Dylan's sagging career, so they came out with this excellent album.

For me New Morning works in every way possible. I love the music. I love Dylan's voice here. I really like the lyrics and the background singers just seem to add to the whole mix. Yeah, a few records down the road they might seem to get a little Motownish, but here they just add to the overall haunting, spooky, bluesy and maybe even a little jazzy feeling of this record. And you know what, there is even a little C & W here. Like Dylan himself, this record is so hard to define.

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  2. For the Record... ~ The Blow Monkeys
  3. Constance ~ Southpacific
  4. Grand Mal ~ Grand Mal
  5. New & Improved ~ Julianne Regan & Mice
  6. 19 Years: A Collection ~ Alex Chilton
  7. The Taste of TG: A Beginners Guide to the Music of Throbbing Gristle ~ Throbbing Gristle
  8. The Coastaline Fire ~ Chore
  9. Pleasure Is No Fun ~ Grand Mal
  10. Some of the Young ~ The Influents

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Ity Hunter Sound Collection Y: Insertion ~ Japanimation