Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks on numbered limited edition Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity

Dylan's masterpiece break-up album: Sentimental redemption arises amid sorrow, turmoil, sadness and pain

Ranked No. 16 on Rolling Stone's List of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

Includes "Tangled Up In Blue," "Simple Twist of Fate," "Idiot Wind," and "Buckets of Rain"

Bob Dylan was at several crossroads in the mid-1970s. Artistically, he was largely written off as being past his prime. Emotionally, he was suffering through a painful divorce from his then-wife Sara Lowndes. Creatively, he appeared at a stalemate, his previous decade's unprecedented run of transformational brilliance finished. Then came Blood on the Tracks.

A start-to-finish cycle that documents a lover's pursuit of, entanglement with, and loss of a woman, the bracingly intimate 1975 effort remains one of the most encompassing break-up albums ever made and ranks as the most personal statement of the Bard's career. To hear it is to experience the agony, frustration, trauma, highs, lows, confusion, sadness, and, ultimately, requisite redemption associated with intimate relationships gone astray. Dylan maintains it's a work of fiction, but it's evident close-vested autobiographical premise is what helps make it universal: It's the icon singing through tears, going out of his mind, battling hallowing emptiness, firing shots across the bow, and accepting culpability. It is, in short, a consummate expression of love's darker sides and the consequences of what happens when dreams unravel.

As part of its Bob Dylan catalog restoration series, Mobile Fidelity is thoroughly humbled to have the privilege of mastering the iconic LP from the original master tapes and making it available on Hybrid SACD. Fantastically presenting both the solo acoustic and band-supported songs with the utmost clarity, dynamics, presence, immediacy, spaciousness, imaging, and balance, this version shines a high-powered light on the fluid vocal phrasing, timbral shifts, functional rhythms, and inward-looking strumming that contribute to every song here serving as a wound-exposing confessional.This product is a Hybrid SACD designed to play in both CD and SACD players, as well as all SACD-compatible DVD players.

 

 

 

1. Tangled up in Blue

2. Simple Twist of Fate

3. You're a Big Girl Now

4. Idiot Wind

5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

6. Meet Me in the Morning

7. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts

8. If You See Her, Say Hello

9. Shelter from the Storm

10. Buckets of Rain

Customer Reviews (5.00 Stars) 2 person(s) rated this product.

Brilliant & Compelling. posted on 02/05/2015 5 Stars Everytime I play this I'm just amazed how fresh and intimate it sounds after all these years. The MFSL team did a really marvelous job - every detail just right....No doubt this one will inspire and energize for years to come. Strongly recommend.

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