Blood on the Tracks released: Jan 20, 1975 BUY

Blood On The Tracks, one of Dylan’s greatest albums, was born, at least in part, of extreme personal turmoil in his life at home and partly out of a creative rebirth Dylan experienced studying painting with teacher Norman Raeben. In it, Dylan was able to muster all the intensity, the imagistic compression, the pain and tenderness and bitterness of his best 1960s work, but with an added note of forgiveness, a deepening openness to sadness and regret and hope and direct utterance that has kept this album one of his most loved. It contains the overwhelmingly powerful “Idiot Wind,” a long letter full of recrimination and sadness and love to an estranged beloved, and the picaresque “Tangled Up In Blue,” in which Dylan manages to give the sense of a sweeping narrative through brilliant, fragmentary images juxtaposed incompact verses. The other songs – “Shelter From The Storm,” “Simple Twist of Fate” “If You See Her Say Hello” and the rest – have a vulnerability and honesty of expression and feeling linked to a poetic talent that is once again at the peak of its form. Tangled Up in Blue | listen | Simple Twist of Fate | listen | You're a Big Girl Now | listen | Idiot Wind | listen | You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go | listen | Meet Me in the Morning | listen | Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts | listen | If You See Her, Say Hello | listen | Shelter from the Storm | listen | Buckets of Rain | listen |