Exhibit explores how Nashville influenced Dylan
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THE Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled a 2-year exhibit “Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City.” Created by renowned artist and punk rocker Jon Langford, the commissioned painting will serve as the exhibit motif and inspiration for other artistic elements in the exhibit design.
Langford is a founding member of influential punk band the Mekons and of pioneering hard-country rockers the Waco Brothers. He was born in Newport, Wales, and studied fine art at Leeds University. Langford is known for his powerful portraits of country and rock icons, including Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. His punk rock instincts and singular artistic eye converge in a painting style that is distinctive, demanding of engagement, and at times politically charged. For Langford, the line between Acuff-Rose and Strummer-Jones is a direct one. His preferred medium is acrylic/mixed media on “square-ish wooden objects.”
The exhibit logo is intricately layered in Langford’s characteristic style. It features portraits of 1960s-era Dylan and Cash, the cityscape as seen on the back of Dylan’s 1969 album, “Nashville Skyline.”
The show looks at the Nashville music scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bob Dylan bucked executives at his record label and surprised his fans when he came to Nashville in 1966 to record his classic album “Blonde on Blonde.”
Dylan’s embrace of Nashville and its musicians inspired many other artists, including Neil Young and Paul McCartney to follow him to Music City.
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