Book cover for Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City by Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Pete Finney, Michael Streissguth, Mick Buck, Peter Cooper, Warren Denney and Michael Gray
2023 Released
112 Pages
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University of Illinois PressISBN 9780915608249
After Bob Dylan came to Nashville in 1966 to record his classic album Blonde on Blonde, his embrace of Nashville and its unmatched session musicians--known as the Nashville Cats--inspired many other artists, among them Neil Young, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, and Paul McCartney, to follow. Around the same time, Johnny Cash was recruiting folk and rock musicians--including Dylan--to appear on his groundbreaking network television show, The Johnny Cash Show.

This book was published as a companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City and features more than twenty commissioned illustrations by noted artist and musician Jon Langford. This book also includes 240 rare photographs and celebrates a time of great cultural vitality for Nashville, tracking the city's music scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and illuminates Nashville's rise as a world-class recording center.

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Michael Streissguth

Michael Streissguth is the author of eight books, including Johnny Cash: The Biography. A professor in the Department of Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York, he has written for Mojo, the Journal of Country Music, Bluegrass Unlimited, and many other publications. He has written and produced two documentary films, Record Paradise and Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison. He lives in Syracuse with his wife and family.

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