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"When Nashville Skyline, the last of Bob Dylan&amp;apos;s brilliant Sixties albums, was released, fans examined every one of its twenty-seven minutes for signs of musical revolution like fortunetellers poring over the intestines of a goat. Now, without the weight of those expectations, Skyline (1969) just sounds like a great country-folk record. It&amp;apos;s warm, full of love songs and even features Dylan employing a baritone croon rather than his trademark wheeze. (Dylan told Rolling Stone in 1969 that all he had done was give up cigarettes.) The album begins with a casual duet with Johnny Cash, &amp;quot;Girl From the North Country,&amp;quot; recorded when the two friends were both working in the same studio. Throughout Skyline, Dylan trades in his usual torrent of lyrics for a relaxed feel, and he does well on the exchange; even slighter songs such as &amp;quot;Peggy Day&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Nashville Skyline Rag&amp;quot; are confident and charming. &amp;quot;Lay Lady Lay,&amp;quot; with an offbeat percussion track built around bongos and a cowbell, was the most successful of these, becoming Dylan&amp;apos;s last Top Ten hit. The album also contains &amp;quot;I Threw It All Away,&amp;quot; one of Dylan&amp;apos;s most gorgeous ballads ever. &amp;quot;Once I had mountains in the palm of my hand/And rivers that ran through ev&amp;apos;ry day,&amp;quot; Dylan sings ruefully. &amp;quot;I must have been mad/I never knew what I had/Until I threw it all away.&amp;quot; It&amp;apos;s the sound of a man with oceans of sorrow within him, asking you to taste just a few salty drops.\r\nThis story is from the May 27, 2004 issue of Rolling Stone."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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