Blood On The Tracks

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The album's epic songs are well known, but its real high points are the shorter numbers - "You're a Big Girl Now", the flawless blues "Meet Me in the Morning", and the sweetly devastating "Buckets of Rain". Dylan himself admitted that he began taking drugs seriously whilst on this tour, and found it immensely hard work. The first couple of times I played the Mobile Fidelity LP, I missed some of the edge in Dylan’s voice on “Idiot Wind” and “Tangled up in Blue. Dylan played the test pressing for his brother, David Zimmerman, who persuaded Dylan the album would not sell because the overall sound was too stark. The 1970s were a period during which Dylan was more sporadic in his output, releasing some poorly received LPs.

A movie about Baby Boomers in the late 70s and early 80s transitioning into their 30s, with some holding onto their ideals and others leaving them behind. For all the melancholic pain, unresolved questions, shattered memories, wasted times, unrequited dialogs, and weary regret within, Blood on the Tracks remains as daring as it is reflective. It sounds more full in the midrange and if it’s not ‘as’ crystal clear it doesn’t mean it’s lacking in clarity. A result of the acclaim surrounding the album has been that when critics have praised one of Dylan's subsequent albums, they have often described it as "his best since Blood on the Tracks".Blood on the Tracks was voted number 7 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000). For me this is the weakest track on the the album because it doesn't really fit in, but would have sounded goos on Desire, which was more bluesy. Irish folk musician Paul Brady recounts how Dylan had heard Brady's 'the Lakes of Pontchartrain' and asked to meet him.

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I mention this only because the first time I saw BD live in concert was in London in '87 and the gal I went with kept saying "I hope he plays Hurricane, I hope he plays Hurricane".