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Love songs
Love found, love lost, love remembered.
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1967Basement and Country
1 of 13I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
John Wesley Harding
Pete Drake's pedal steel on the closing track pointed toward the country sound of Nashville Skyline.
↓ 2 years later
1969Basement and Country
2 of 13Girl From the North Country
Nashville Skyline
Dylan re-recorded his 1963 song as a duet with Johnny Cash in Nashville, and it opens the album.
↓ the same year
1969Basement and Country
3 of 13I Threw It All Away
Nashville Skyline
Dylan sang it on the premiere episode of The Johnny Cash Show in 1969.
↓ the same year
1969Basement and Country
4 of 13Lay Lady Lay
Nashville Skyline
Released as a single, it reached the US top ten in 1969.
↓ the same year
1969Basement and Country
5 of 13Tell Me That It Isn't True
Nashville Skyline
It was recorded in Nashville in February 1969 with Bob Johnston producing.
↓ the same year
1969Basement and Country
6 of 13To Be Alone With You
Nashville Skyline
A spoken aside from Dylan to producer Bob Johnston was left in at the start of the track.
↓ the same year
1969Basement and Country
7 of 13Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Nashville Skyline
It closes the album and was also issued as a single.
↓ 5 years later
1974Blood on the Tracks
8 of 13Something There Is About You
Planet Waves
A warm love song in which a new love takes him back to his boyhood in Duluth.
↓ 2 years later
1985The '80s
11 of 13Emotionally Yours
Empire Burlesque
A slow piano ballad pledging himself wholly to the one he loves.
↓ 4 years later
1989The '80s
12 of 13Man in the Long Black Coat
Oh Mercy
Its recording opens with the sound of crickets, adding to Lanois's swampy atmosphere.
↓ 12 years later
2001Late Renaissance
13 of 13Moonlight
"Love and Theft"
An old-fashioned crooner's invitation to meet a lover in the moonlight.