Radio 2 broadcast a documentary the other night about the making of Blonde on Blonde called Nashville Cats (still available on iPlayer). It featured a lot of the musicians from Nashville as well as the producer, Tom Johnston, and Al Kooper. I found it very interesting - I didn't realise that all of the Nashville session musicians were in their twenties at the time. I'd always had the impression that Dylan had gone to Nashville to work with an earlier generation of musicians, not people who were his contemporaries.

It also made me think about a point that was made in a different documentary about lead guitar playing last week. It suggested that the best lead guitarists were the ones who came up with licks and fills which became part of the song - and so on that basis, they said George Harrison held the title.

It's only one definition, but using it, the musicians on Blonde on Blonde, whichever instrument they played, must have been some of the best ever in one studio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01130ty