And we're back in familiar fiver from Fopp territory once again. Yep, I really did leave it until 2000 to buy this album; part of the mopping up phase of my Dylan collection, rather than a cornerstone.
Slips down easily, this album. At 27 minutes, it feels shorter than some of the songs on Times They are a-Changin'.
If you're playing join-the-dots with the narrative of Bobby's career, then it that "Love is all there is / It makes the world go round" line in I Threw it all Away is a handy marker in the Politics-Love-God arc. But that line gets kind of confused from 1984 onwards, and the message of Nashville Skyline seems to be, Why bother with such schemes? Just kick back, throw your troubles out the door, enjoy the tunes.
If anything, I see it as a kind of appendix to John Wesley Harding's tablets of zen.
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