Blood on the Tracks
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17th January 1975 |
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CD, LP; Hybrid SACD |
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10 |
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51:49 min |
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Blood on the Tracks is Bob Dylan's 15th studio album . It was released again in 1975 on Columbia Records after Dylan had released two albums on Asylum Records in the meantime.
Emergence
All tracks for the album were initially recorded in New York and produced by Phil Ramone . The recordings took place in September 1974. Five songs Dylan was dissatisfied with were re-recorded with local studio musicians in late December 1974 in Minneapolis, directed by Dylan's brother David . Copies of test pressings of the original versions that were already in circulation were sold as bootlegs a little later . As part of Record Store Day 2019, the original recordings from New York were released on vinyl as a test pressing by Columbia Records .
The outtake Up to Me from the recordings of Blood on the Tracks appeared on the 1985 album Biograph .
title
- Tangled Up in Blue - 5:40
- Simple Twist of Fate - 4:18
- You're a Big Girl Now - 4:36
- Idiot Wind - 7:45
- You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - 2:58
- Meet Me in the Morning - 4:19
- Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - 8:50
- If You See Her, Say Hello - 4:46
- Shelter from the Storm - 4:59
- Buckets of Rain - 3:29
Official versions of the songs
Already on the live album Hard Rain (1976) there are rearranged versions of Shelter from the Storm, You're a Big Girl Now and Idiot Wind. Even Bob Dylan At Budokan (1978) contains Shelter from the Storm and Simple Twist of Fate .
A first song (You're a Big Girl Now) of the New York studio recordings was published on Biograph in 1985 . On The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 was followed in 1991 Tangled Up In Blue, Idiot Wind and If You See Her Say Hello .
A solo live version of Tangled Up In Blue, which has been heavily modified in terms of text, can be heard on Real Live from 1984.
In 2002 the Rolling Thunder Revue released a live concert (1975) with Simple Twist of Fate and Tangled Up In Blue (on separate DVD also as video).
On the soundtrack of Jerry Maguire - Game of Life , an unknown studio version of Shelter from the Storm was released in 1995 with an extra verse from 1974.
In November 2012, an alternative studio version of Meet me in the Morning was released.
In 2018 a 6 CD collection of outtakes from the New York Sessions (More Blood, More Tracks) was released as part of the Bootleg Series.
meaning
In many interviews, Dylan described this album as a turning point in his work. As a result of his motorcycle accident on July 29, 1966, he suffered, according to his own account, “a kind of amnesia” which robbed him of the ability to “unintentionally” “find” new songs in the stream of consciousness, so to speak . It was only since his two-month study of painting with Norman Raeben in 1974 that he had acquired the ability to now consciously compose his songs.
The album is also interpreted as Dylan's artistic processing of the separation from his wife Sara. However, Dylan himself has repeatedly denied a direct connection. For many fans this is one of his best albums and Tangled Up in Blue is the best song Dylan has ever written. The critics of the German edition of the music magazine Rolling Stone voted the album 25th in their list of the " 500 best albums of all time ", making it Dylan's fourth best album after Blonde on Blonde , Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited . The US edition of Rolling Stone put the album at number 16 of the best 500 albums.
Web links
- Blood on the Tracks on the official Bob Dylan website
- Several articles for the album's 35th birthday
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joe Levy (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . White Star Verlag, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-86726-024-4 , pp. 35 (English: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . 2005. Translated by Karin Hofmann).
