Author Description

After Bob Dylan came to Nashville in 1966 to record his classic album <i>Blonde on Blonde</i>, 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, <i>The Johnny Cash Show</i>. <p>This book was published as a companion to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum exhibition <i>Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City</i> 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.</p>