Paperback, 171 pages
English language
Published March 21, 2020 by Independently published.
Immediately after the release of Blood On The Tracks (1975), most reviewers, journalists and fans agree: Dylan thematizes, poignantly honest in masterful songs, the expired state of his marriage. This annoys the Nobel Prize winner. In a first radio interview, he acknowledges the songs articulate pain, but objects when interviewer Mary Travers half-heartedly suggests it sounds autobiographical. “I” is not “me, Bob Dylan,” Dylan argues, je est un autre.In the following years Dylan acts more assertively, culminating in the booklet Biograph (1985), in which he even starts to scold those “stupid jerks” with their their “unimaginary mentality” who think that it is about his divorce.To no avail. “BOTT” is stubbornly honoured as The Divorce Album. In his autobiography Chronicles (2004), Dylan then takes a different turn: “Eventually I would even record an entire album based on Chekhov short stories - critics thought it was autobiographical - that was fine.”In Blood …
Immediately after the release of Blood On The Tracks (1975), most reviewers, journalists and fans agree: Dylan thematizes, poignantly honest in masterful songs, the expired state of his marriage. This annoys the Nobel Prize winner. In a first radio interview, he acknowledges the songs articulate pain, but objects when interviewer Mary Travers half-heartedly suggests it sounds autobiographical. “I” is not “me, Bob Dylan,” Dylan argues, je est un autre.In the following years Dylan acts more assertively, culminating in the booklet Biograph (1985), in which he even starts to scold those “stupid jerks” with their their “unimaginary mentality” who think that it is about his divorce.To no avail. “BOTT” is stubbornly honoured as The Divorce Album. In his autobiography Chronicles (2004), Dylan then takes a different turn: “Eventually I would even record an entire album based on Chekhov short stories - critics thought it was autobiographical - that was fine.”In Blood On The Tracks - Dylan's Masterpiece In Blue, Dylan scholar Jochen Markhorst takes the reader through the beauty and background of the songs, the beautiful outtakes, the build-up to the masterpiece and its reverberation.
A journey through the possible influences underpinning Dylan's revered Blood on the Tracks album. Typical of Markhorst's analytical style, which usually has one looking up and listening to many other songs.
