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Originally Posted by ribbons
I really like the atmosphere and textures of the Pat Garrett soundtrack in general. My favorite albums for Dylan's vocals are the '67 basement tapes (for their playfulness), Nashville Skyline (the smooth country crooning), New Morning (singing with a cold! which somehow went well with his skewed piano playing), through '74's Planet Waves -- throughout that period he toned down the nasality and his vocals became more supple and emotive.
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The pat garret album just has this epic feel about the whole thing. The instrumental version of "knockin on heavens door"with the flute is so awesome.
Two of those albums you mentioned, "new morning" and "planet waves" are two of my favorite albums. I agree with what you say about his voice through that time period. He definitely moved away from that signature "speaking" vocal style he used on albums like 'highway 61' and 'blonde on blonde'. He started showin that he could really sing on 'nashville skyline'. And then there's 'desire', which featured great vocal performances, especially In the song 'one more cup of coffee'.