“It goes without saying that Cash fans are as baffled by Dylan’s emergence here as Dylan freaks were startled at the news of this new axis,” he wrote. This was one of the first times the public had seen Dylan since his motorcycle accident three years earlier and Rolling Stone sent Patrick Thomas to the Ryman Auditorium to report on the scene. To repay the favor and promote the LP, Dylan agreed to appear on the first episode of The Johnny Cash Show along with Joni Mitchell and fiddle player Doug Kershaw. The back-to-back success of his recent live albums At Folsom Prison and At San Quentin re-introduced him to a mainstream audience outside of the country community, and this was a chance to greatly expand on that at a time when everything on network TV attracted millions of viewers.įour months earlier, Cash spent the day recording with Bob Dylan at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, though only their duet on “Girl From The North Country” made the cut for Dylan’s Nashville Skyline.

Johnny Cash wanted to make a big impression when his ABC music variety show The Johnny Cash Show debuted on June 6th, 1969.

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