How to Listen to Bob Dylan - Blood on The Tracks

This album also starts out with a stone cold classic-- “Tangled Up in Blue.” There’s not much not to like about a song in which each verse chronicles a year in a failed relationship. Genius, really! The album then curves its way through songs of break-up (“Simple Twist of Fate”), heartache (“If You See Her Say Hello”) and meaninglessness (“Buckets of Rain”). Dylanophiles know Blood on the Tracks as the “divorce” record because Bobby penned it in the midst of his divorce from Sara Lowndes. It’s his best album from the 70’s for sure …because there is very little of the 70’s in it. No cheesy synthesizer, disco beats or bad guitar solos. Arguably, the only thing to turn off a novice Dylan listener is the bluesy “Meet Me in the Morning” and the lengthy “Jack of Hearts”.