After returning to California, the Byrds' released the "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" album on August 30, 1968, almost eight weeks after Parsons had left the band. It comprised a mixture of country music standards and contemporary country material, along with a country reworking of William Bell's soul hit "You Don't Miss Your Water". The album also included the Parsons originals "Hickory Wind" and "One Hundred Years from Now", along with the Bob Dylan-penned songs "Nothing Was Delivered" and "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere", the latter of which had been a moderately successful single. Although it was not the first country rock album, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" was the first album widely labeled as country rock to be released by an internationally successful rock act, pre-dating Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" by over six months. The first bona fide country rock album overall is often cited as being Parsons' earlier "Safe at Home", which he recorded with his group the International Submarine Band.