History Music / BloodOnTheTracks

A [[CutSong song left off the album]], "Up to Me" was released on the ''Biograph'' box set in 1985, along with the New York version of "You're a Big Girl Now". Several other alternate takes and the previously-unreleased "Call Letter Blues" were included on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3'' in 1991. In 2018, a Bootleg Series installment devoted to the entire album sessions, called ''More Blood, More Tracks'', was issued to great acclaim (including from Music/KanyeWest, who [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeted]] some of the lyrics from "Up to Me" and invited Dylan to "get together" with him).

A song left off the album, "Up to Me" was released on the ''Biograph'' box set in 1985, along with the New York version of "You're a Big Girl Now". Several other alternate takes and the previously-unreleased "Call Letter Blues" were included on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3'' in 1991. In 2018, a Bootleg Series installment devoted to the entire album sessions, called ''More Blood, More Tracks'', was issued to great acclaim (including from Music/KanyeWest, who [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeted]] some of the lyrics from "Up to Me" and invited Dylan to "get together" with him).

* TwelveBarBlues: "Meet Me in the Morning".

* EpicRocking: "Idiot Wind" and "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack Of Hearts" both exceed the 7:00 mark. Amazingly, they were both about a minute longer in their New York iterations (and "Lily" had an extra verse that he cut for the Minnesota version).

* AStormIsComing: "Shelter From The Storm", where the woman gives the male protagonist shelter from what could possibly be a metaphorical storm.

** "Shelter from the Storm" obviously invokes this.

** He even did this during the recording sessions. "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" was also attempted as a ballad and with an almost {{Bluegrass}}-type uptempo arrangement.
** A couple alternate takes from the sessions that have been released over the years include "Shelter from the Storm" (on the ''Film/JerryMaguire'' soundtrack) with a jingly piano, and "Meet Me in the Morning" (as a BSide to "Duquesne Whistle" from ''Tempest'') done as a Music/RobertJohnson-style acoustic blues piece.

-> '''Creator/QuentinTarantino''', who, in a 1994 interview with Melody Maker about his personal Top 10 favourite albums, put "Blood On The Tracks" first place and "Tangled Up In Blue" second place, despite the fact it's just a song and from the same album.

An outtake, "Up to Me", was released on the ''Biograph'' box set in 1985. Several alternate takes and a previously-unreleased song, "Call Letter Blues", were included on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3'' in 1991. In 2018, a Bootleg Series installment devoted to the entire album sessions, called ''More Blood, More Tracks'', was issued to great acclaim (including from Music/KanyeWest, who [[Website/{{Twitter}} tweeted]] some of the lyrics from "Up to Me" and invited Dylan to "get together" with him).

* StalkerWithACrush: The man going after the woman toward the end of "Simple Twist of Fate" can be seen as an example.

Also in 2018, Creator/LucaGuadagnino announced that he will make [[https://thefilmstage.com/news/luca-guadagnino-to-adapt-bob-dylans-blood-on-the-tracks-into-feature-film/ a film adaptation of the album]], from a screenplay by Richard [=LaGravenese=]. Creator/ChloeGraceMoretz has been cast as the female lead.

* LoveableRogue: The Jack of Hearts in "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts", who fascinates everybody despite being a scoundrel.

* ShaggyDogStory: "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts", in which Dylan acts as the LemonyNarrator of a WildWest story of love and jealousy, but in the end [[spoiler:it's actually the account of a gang of thieves who successfully rob a bank, while their leader, the Jack of Hearts, uses his LoveableRogue personality to distract the townsfolk]].

Initially recorded in New York as an acoustic-based album, Dylan called off its release at the last minute, then re-recorded five of its ten songs[[note]]"Tangled Up in Blue", "You're a Big Girl Now", "Idiot Wind", "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts", "If You See Her, Say Hello"[[/note]] with a quickly-assembled band in Minneapolis.

* EpicRocking: "Idiot Wind" and "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack Of Hearts" both exceed the 7:00 mark. Amazingly, they were both about a minute longer in their New York iterations (and "Lily" had an extra verse that he cut from the Minnesota version).

* AsTheGoodBookSays: "Shelter From The Storm"

--> ''"Come in", she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm".''

* ShaggyDogStory: "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts", in which Dylan acts as the LemonyNarrator of a Old West story of love and jealousy, but in the end [[spoiler:it's actually the account of a gang of thieves who successfully rob a bank, while their leader, the Jack of Hearts, uses his LoveableRogue personality to distract the townsfolk]].

* ShaggyDogStory: "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts".

Initially recorded in New York as an acoustic-based album, Dylan called off its release at the last minute, then re-recorded five of its ten songs[[note]]"Tangled Up in Blue", "You're a Big Girl Now", "Idiot Wind", "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts", "If You See Her, Say Hello"[[/note]] with a hastily-assembled band in Minneapolis.

At the very least, it's considered by most fans and critics alike to be Dylan's best album of the 1970's, if not his overall MagnumOpus. It would be his last consensus "classic" until ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'' in 1997. It was listed at #16 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'''s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. It's well remembered for the hits "Tangled Up In Blue" and "Shelter From The Storm".

Initially recorded in New York as an acoustic-based album, Dylan called off its release at last minute, then re-recorded five of its ten songs[[note]]"Tangled Up in Blue", "You're a Big Girl Now", "Idiot Wind", "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts", "If You See Her, Say Hello"[[/note]] with a hastily-assembled band in Minneapolis.

''Blood On The Tracks'' is the fifteenth studio album by Music/BobDylan, released in 1975. Perhaps his most personal effort, reflecting the breakdown of his relationship with then-wife Sara, it's considered by most fans and critics alike to be Dylan's best album of the 1970's, and would be his last consensus "classic" until ''Music/TimeOutOfMind'' in 1997. It was listed at #16 in ''Magazine/RollingStone'''s [[UsefulNotes/RollingStone500GreatestAlbumsOfAllTime 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]. It's well remembered for the hits "Tangled Up In Blue" and "Shelter From The Storm".