Paul Compton

One of the finest gifts the movie business has given to listeners around the world. If you listen to this sound track and are not sentimental even to the point of loving tears, you are not alive. I cherish this sound track and always will.

Nashville Skyline is a precious diamond amongst the rhinestones and pseudo sparklers ever present in the music industry. Bob Dylan sidestepped his previous signature and lent his rural artistic touch to this album. Using Nashville pickers, his songs and lyrics stand as giants in the world of wordsmiths, artisans, and the best songwriters around. If it was a race, Mr. Zimmerman left them all at the starting gate. It's my opinion, and this is difficult to say, considering all his previous works, Nashville Skyline is his best album. He has so many golden stars spread out across his political, sociological, and yes, spiritual horizons that are imprinted on our minds and hearts. Nashville Skyline brings more to the listeners, many who have seen the movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Sam Peckinpah's 1973 Masterpiece, and will always remember the scene with Chill Wills dying of a gunshot wound. To dramatize that poignant scene, Knocking on Heaven's Door plays behind the entire scene. So much emotion in that one scene that many movie goers cried. Even after the music ended you still heard the song, ringing in you mind and heart like the tones of a huge bell tolling and fading off.