A Look Back: Bob Dylan And Johnny Cash Perform “Girl From The North Country” in 1969

It was 1969, Johnny Cash invited Bob Dylan to his show to perform the song, “Girl from the North Country.” The video has been shared multiple times on Facebook. Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan were important to the contribution to a music scene, new Nashville, and indeed it was a new sound.

Johnny Cash was a successful country singer and songwriter, while Bob Dylan was just emerging onto the music scene. Cash’s show, The Johnny Cash Show, invited Dylan to perform after the artist completed his album, John Wesley Harding in 1967. All the songs and tidbits of the music they made together were recorded in mid-February of 1969. They played a couple of songs and they sang a couple of songs, but then Cash also said that Dylan could join him in making an album together. Both Dylan and Cash would play songs from each other and then they would write their own.

Dylan and Cash were long-time friends, and often helped each other out along the way. Dylan was offered a time where he could record his album in Cash’s studio and then a time where Cash and Dylan would play fifteen songs from his upcoming album that year, or just some songs they did back in the old days. It was wonderful to hear some friends just sit down and play guitar together, enjoying their spots in the stage light, and staying friends until the end.

Even though, some friends remain and some go their own way, these friends were playing music and writing songs together for the longest time. Dylan’s LP came out in April of that year which included ten to eleven songs that he recorded in Cash’s music studio up in Nashville, TN.