A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE

     In 1974 Bob Dylan wrote, recorded, reconsidered, and then re-recorded the best-selling studio album of his career. Blood on the Tracks was composed as Dylan's twelve-year marriage began to unravel, and songs like "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Shelter from the Storm" have become templates for multidimensional, adult songs of love and loss. Yet the story behind the creation of this album has never been fully told; even the credits on the present-day album sleeve are inaccurate.
    Bob Dylan recorded the album twice-once in New York City and again in Minneapolis, with a rag-tag gang of local musicians, quickly rewriting many of the songs in the process.

- BOB DYLAN AND THE MAKING OF BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, by Andy Gill and Kevin Odegard, DaCapo Press 2004, 246 pages.

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