BOB DYLAN Nashville Skyline VG++ 1969 Columbia KCS 9825 1ST PRESS JOHNNY CASH
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Vinyl: VG++ Play Graded. Sounds great! Columbia 2 Eye Labels are Clean. This is the Original 1969 Columbia 1ST Pressing! KCS 9825. A continuation of the sea change Dylan had started with John Wesley Harding, this one being his most popular as well as his most successful. Apparently, Dylan had quit smoking around this time and this accounts for the considerable change in his singing voice. The beginning song, a duet with Johnny Cash on "Girl From The North Country" sets the tone magnificently... all music gives it 5 stars!!!
See Review Below!
In the dead wax: Side 1: Stampers: XSM139756-1G
Side 2: Stampers: XSM139757-1F
Cover: VG+ (see photos; tape on front cover) Includes the company sleeve. By the way, I made an error including the plain paper sleeve with the photos of the record. The plain paper sleeve doesn't come with this record; this record comes with the company sleeve :)
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album?
First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm.
First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider. Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive. Inner details are clearer.
On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant. The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
John Wesley Harding suggested country with its textures and structures, but Nashville Skyline was a full-fledged country album, complete with steel guitars and brief, direct songs. It's a warm, friendly album, particularly since Bob Dylan is singing in a previously unheard gentle croon -- the sound of his voice is so different it may be disarming upon first listen, but it suits the songs. While there are a handful of lightweight numbers on the record, at its core are several excellent songs -- "Lay Lady Lay," "To Be Alone With You," "I Threw It All Away," "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You," as well as a duet with Johnny Cash on "Girl From the North Country" -- that have become country-rock standards. And there's no discounting that Nashville Skyline, arriving in the spring of 1969, established country-rock as a vital force in pop music, as well as a commercially viable genre.
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