April 30, 1979 Sessions for Slow Train Coming began at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. | Bob Dylan

April 9, 1969: The release of Nashville Skyline marks Dylan’s embrace of country music – a move that would send hundreds of well-known musicians to record in Nashville, Tennessee. The album yields a worldwide smash single, “Lay, Lady, Lay,” and features Dylan singing a duet with country music legend Johnny Cash. | Bob Dylan

The sessions for Blonde on Blonde, Dylan’s legendary 1966 release, started in New York City with Dylan’s then-current backup group The Band. But at this point in their maturation, The Band did not have the kind of flexibility Dylan was looking for in the studio. Those sessions, in the winter of 1965, yielded only one track that would wind up on Blonde on Blonde, One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later), and in that case only Robbie Robertson from The Band played on the released track. That notwiths