Dylan's return to Columbia Records in 1975 resulted in atribulated recording sessions between New York and Minneapolis, but has subsequently been acclaimed as one of Dylan's greatest albums by critics and fans consolidating his status not only as the great artist from the 60's but also as a major creative force of the 70's. Audiophile remaster from the Original Master Tapes and pressed at RTI on 180gr vinyl.

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rated 16/500

Rated 10/10 Music and 9/10 Sound by Michael Fremer (Analog Planet)

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Bob Dylan Catalog Audiophile Restoration Series

Ultimate sound quality for some of the best music ever recorded!

• Numbered Limited Edition
• 180 grams High Definition Vinyl pressed at RTI USA
• Mastering on MFSL Gain 2 Ultra Analog System
• Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes
• Cut by Krieg Wunderlich and Shawn Britton
• Special Static Free & Dust Free Inner Sleeves
• Deluxe Gatefold Cover

1/4" / 15 IPS / Dolby A analog master to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe

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 pressing it on dead-quiet LPs at RTI. The end result is the very finest, most transparent analog edition of Blood on the Tracks ever produced—and the first-ever proper analog reissue. 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.

For all the melancholic pain, unresolved questions, shattered memories, wasted times, unrequited dialogs, and weary regret within, Blood on the Tracks remains as daring as it is reflective. Rather than follow for a monotone caustic vibe, Dylan’s songs burrow into the subconscious for the manners in which they are even-keeled, mellow, and occasionally, even peaceful. Dignity, honor, poignancy, and fairness - all traits uncommon in any situation in which partners dissolve histories, change hearts, and attribute blame - instill the record with equilibrium on par with the consistency of the flowing melodies.

Throughout, tunes come on and proceed as if they could continue forever, Dylan spinning poetic verses and conversations amidst finely tied knots of acoustic notes, chords, and fills, the deceivingly simple architecture conjuring the intertwined refractions of a bezeled jewel, various angles, colors, and textures conjoining into a gorgeously inseparable whole. Backed by Tony Brown’s flexible albeit subtle bass, Buddy Cage’s country-streaked pedal-steel guitar, and Paul Griffin’s soul-baring organ - an instrument used to shadow, tuckpoint, and illuminate here as effectively as any time in rock history - Dylan pours soulful emotion, open his veins, and bleeds.

Ranked 16 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and replete with existential thought, piercing directness, raw singing, and majestic arrangements.

“Mobile Fidelity has untangled all of the musical lines that are not exactly hidden on any version, but are presented here with startling clarity, three-dimensionality and solidity…The LP lays it all out so clearly you hear every pick strike and see each instrument in stark 3D relief occupying its own layered space. Most importantly, Dylan's voice sounds utterly natural and convincing…Well done MoFi guys!” - Michael Fremer, Analog Planet

Track Listing:

SIDE A:
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

SIDE B:
1. Meet Me in the Morning
2. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
3. If You See Her, Say Hello
4. Shelter From the Storm
5. Buckets of Rain