Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In 1975, Bob Dylan released "Blood on the Tracks," an album about relationship conflict that has since become a benchmark in his illustrious discography. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot do a classic album dissection and talk to someone who played on the record and some music journalists about what makes it so iconic.

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Featured Songs:

Bob Dylan, "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975

Bob Dylan, "Shelter from the Storm," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975

Bob Dylan, "Idiot Wind (Take 6)," The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks, Columbia, 2018

Bob Dylan, "Idiot Wind," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975

Bob Dylan, "Buckets of Rain," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975

Bob Dylan, "You're a Big Girl Now," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975

Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up In Blue (Take 3, Remake 2)," The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991, Columbia, 1991

Bob Dylan, "Tangled Up In Blue," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975

Bob Dylan, "If You See Her, Say Hello," Blood on the Tracks, Columbia, 1975

Alabama 3, "Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix)," Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix) (Single), Geffen, 2000

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0:00.0	Hey Sound opinions listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast,
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0:14.0	So, Yeah, You're listening to sound opinions and this week it's time for a classic album
0:36.0	dissection of Bob Dylan's blood on the tracks. I'm Jim D. Regottis.
0:41.2	And I'm Greg Kot. We'll talk with a musician who played on the record and some music writers about what makes the record so iconic.
0:48.0	Let's get to it.
0:50.0	Greg, I think we have to start with a little bit of the context of the times.
0:55.0	You know the turbulence of the late 60s, everybody seems to think that it stopped in 1968
1:00.8	the pinnacle, those assassinations, the riots in fact like a bad hangover or a nightmare that you can't wake up from
1:09.3	Really the mid-70s into the mid-70s was a very dark time. I went back and looked at 1974. We have
1:17.7	Nixon finally resigning, you know, Watergate, the de no moo-mois, and Gerald Ford coming in and pardoning him.
1:26.1	And you know, bombings.
1:28.5	There was a great book I read a few years ago, Days of Rage, America's Radical Underground by Brian Burrow, that what you often
1:37.6	think about anti-war protesters, bombing, FBI offices, that sort of thing, that it reached a pinnacle in the 60s.
1:47.0	No, no, no.
1:48.1	It was the mid-70s where we saw this, not only in the US, groups like the FALN and left-wing radical groups,
1:57.0	but around the world several key tragic IRA bombings in the troubles over in the UK, you know a fascist group in hitting
2:09.4	a train between Italy and West Germany, bombings by the left in Japan.
2:15.0	It's a violent time where people just can't seem to talk to one another.
2:22.0	And you can hear it in some of my favorite albums
2:25.1	released that year, the same year or just before Dylan would release blood on the
2:30.7	tracks. Neil Young is in the same place as Dylan with on the beach, right?
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