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I was living in San Francisco when "Blood on the Tracks" was released in January 1975, I don't remember being all that enthralled with it. I think I still felt burned over "Self Portrait" from five years earlier,… (1)
and not much after that had left me craving for more new Dylan. Also, the Pete Hamill liner notes didn't jibe with the vinyl contents, quoted lyrics not at all matching the actual tracks. All quite confusing and dismissive at the time. (2)
It was three years later when KPFA in Berkeley aired their (annual?) Dylan marathon. All unreleased recordings and concerts. The 12-hour broadcast began at 8 PM on May 28, 1978, and I made sure to have enough reel-to-reel tapes to record it all. (3)
It was an all-nighter, and by 7 am I was pretty much fried. (4)
At around 7:30 am, for its last half-hour, the station played five "Blood" tracks from the New York sessions. I don't know if it was the lack of sleep or the tracks themselves, but hearing them at that moment, in that state, left me spellbound. (5)
I, like countless others, then spent the next few decades searching for any and all further recordings from those memorable four days at New York's A&R Studios in September 1974, each new acquisition a treasure. (6)
And now Bootleg Series Vol. 14 is out, and it's all here. Forty-four years later. It pays to stay alive. (7/)pic.twitter.com/OOKtmScxKB
I've been reading some old reviews, and many critics didn't think much of it at the time either. I've loved it since I first heard it with "Idiot Wind" being one of my all time favorites.
Much of it due, I suspect, to the Minnesota retakes.
I felt neutral about "Self Portrait" but listened repeatedly and kept it in the rotation when friends came over. "Blood on the Tracks" I loved from day one despite the too long "...Jack of Hearts."
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