and the ways Dylan, both as composer and performer, has found to exploit subtle differences on a deliberately limited emotional and verbal scale." In Rolling Stone, Paul Nelson wrote, " Nashville Skyline achieves the artistically impossible: a deep, humane, and interesting statement about being happy. A critic for Newsweek wrote of "the great charm. Three singles were pulled from it, all of which received significant airplay on AM radio.Ĭritical reception and legacy Retrospective professional reviews Review scoresĭespite the dramatic, commercial shift in direction, the press also gave Nashville Skyline a warm reception. Helped by a promotional appearance on The Johnny Cash Show on June 7, Nashville Skyline went on to become one of Dylan's best-selling albums. He changed the way people thought about it – even the Grand Ole Opry was never the same again." The country scene was so conservative until he arrived. "Our generation owes him our artistic lives," observed Kris Kristofferson, who later sang with Cash in The Highwaymen, "because he opened all the doors in Nashville when he did Blonde on Blonde and Nashville Skyline. However, as Clinton Heylin wrote of Nashville Skyline, "If Dylan was concerned about retaining a hold on the rock constituency, making albums with Johnny Cash in Nashville was tantamount to abdication in many eyes." Even as he moved away from topical songs, he never lost his cultural stature.
Dylan had been a leading cultural figure, noted for political and social commentary throughout the 1960s. Protests over a wide range of political topics became more frequent. engagement in Southeast Asia, particularly the Vietnam War, would continue for several years. A new president, Richard Nixon, was sworn into office in January 1969, but the U.S. Riots broke out in most major American cities, including a major one surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago and racially motivated conflagrations spurred by King's assassination. Kennedy (a leading candidate for the presidency) were assassinated. In 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
By the time Nashville Skyline was recorded, the political climate in the United States had grown more polarized.
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