Product Description
Rare Actual 1975 Japanese First Pressing Still In Beautiful Condition! Includes 6-Page Insert With Lyrics In English & Japanese, Original Wine Red Inner Sleeve, Labels Are Clean. Rated Amongst His Finest Albums, ‘Blood On The Tracks’ Is A Work Of Genius From The Great Bob Dylan!
Condition — Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Nicest copy I have ever seen!
Condition — Cover: EXCELLENT! Insert has some discolouring, due to age. Incredibly well looked after for nearly 50 years!
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint condition original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Tangled Up In Blue
Simple Twist Of Fate
You’re A Big Girl Now
Idiot Wind
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Side 2:
Meet Me In The Morning
Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts
If You See Her, Say Hello
Shelter From The Storm
Buckets Of Rain
AMG –
Dylan made albums more influential than this, but he never made one better. Blood on the Tracks finds Bob Dylan, in a way, retreating to the past, recording a largely quiet, acoustic-based album. This is an album alternately bitter, sorrowful, regretful, and peaceful, easily the closest he ever came to wearing his emotions on his sleeve. That's not to say that it's an explicitly confessional record, since many songs are riddles or allegories, yet the warmth of the music makes it feel that way. Blood on the Tracks remains an intimate, revealing affair. As such, it's an affecting, unbearably poignant record, not because it's a glimpse into his soul, but because the songs are remarkably clear-eyed and sentimental, lovely and melancholy at once. And, in a way, it's best that he was backed with studio musicians here, since the professional, understated backing lets the songs and emotion stand at the forefront. Dylan made albums more influential than this, but he never made one better.