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Clinton Heylin, in his book Recording Sessions, writes that Nashville Skyline could have been an attempt to make John Wesley Harding II. That makes some sense. Like Harding, it was recorded in Nashville and used several of the same session musicians.

But the result had a significantly more country sound, Dylan’s vocals in particular.

Dylan said the sweeter-sounding voice was the result of his quitting cigarettes, but clearly, there was more to it than that. Dylan obviously consciously chose to sing in a more standard style (something he had done before, well before he became famous).

David Pichaske, in his book Song of the North Country, has some interesting thoughts on exactly why Dylan’s vocals sound “country”.

Or rather, sort-of country.

The Johnny Cash-Bob Dylan duet which opens the album offers an instructive contrast between Dylan’s soft, almost New York, lost r’s and Cash’s relatively harder Arkansas r’s, especiall