Cohen part of Country Music Museum exhibit Nashville 2015
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:05 am
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Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City to Open Next Year at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Posted by D. Patrick Rodgers on Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:23 PM
In our Feb. 7, 2013, issue, your old pals on the Scene edit staff tried to pinpoint the very moment when Music City became "It City," starting with Nashville's birth and leading all the way up to The New York Times' declaration that we were, in fact, "It." One of the items we pointed to on our timeline was Bob Dylan's journey to Nashville to record Blonde on Blonde with the local stable of Music Row session cats.
Well, news comes our way today that Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will open an exhibit next year paying homage to that very moment in Music City history. The exhibit, titled Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, will tell the story of "the many rock and folk artists who came to Nashville in the late 1960s and early ’70s to work with the city’s versatile, hotshot session musicians, the 'Nashville Cats.'" That means not just Robert Zimmerman, but also Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, The Byrds, Paul McCartney, Joan Baez, Leon Russell, Simon & Garfunkel and many more.
A New Music City — which follows CoMu's current Bakersfield Sound exhibit, closing at the end of this year — opens Friday, March 27, 2015, and runs for roughly two years.
“Bob Dylan opened the gate," says Nashville Cat Charlie McCoy according to this release. "After he came they just started pouring in here.”