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Welcome back to this very special edition of the program and tonight we're in the company Steven Caulker for our monthly that's been going for a few months now but our monthly Essential Collection albums that you've just got to have a new in your record collection just tough to hear the on tonight as the turn of Bob Dylan's 175 masterpiece some would say I would say I statements has one Blood On The Tracks fabulous album I took and talking to Stephen but not before we hear another cover of a truck from the album and this is the brain of Meet me in the morning from Mary Louise Corvette it comes from my blood in the trucks which is a tribute album to Blood on the trucks recorded live in New York City enjoy. He really was classic album Tonight blood on the tracks Bob Dylan of his confessional best as he rightly says to even steven cockroach here with us a review in the. Dylan if not a 100 percent autobiographical with elements of his own story because of us not something that he's ever done you know from the flash days or even from the folk days through the kind of flashed as in the mid sixty's it's not really been about how much. No but they are telling that sort of here stories of his life was it of a shock and it is I mean I think I think my take on Dylan is that from a very early stage I mean it's well known that he you know Bob Dylan isn't his real name when he arrived in New York the backstory that he gave was not the real back story I don't think he ever on sort of a direct question with a direct answer in any of the press conferences I think people he will lyrics that . People had no idea what he was talking about its sign did great it was all in line on the set was all about the images it's just about the images. But there's no real truth behind that the only song that I can think of from the early days a song called Ballad in Plain D. Which he wrote about the break up of his relationship with Israel we're told one a Barry Croll depiction of her sister in particular and that's a song that he explicitly says and how sad for a number of years he wishes he hadn't written. So you never get you know he's not a Joni Mitchell he's not a James Taylor he's not someone that pours his personal experience into his art or at least not in a way that you can discern. And I think that's why this couple of songs on Planet Waves but this album in particular seems such a departure. And I suppose at the time it must have seemed as if he was maybe. Almost jumping on the center songwriter bandwagon because the confessional song had become very much in vogue at the time now we've mentioned it on previous versions of this classic album slot Stephen where we talk about the very personal becoming the universal which is what makes that a great album is that when people can identify with us people's personal stories but they see them almost as their own. Also knows to provide great Chinn's and so many of these tracks have been covered by so many people which clearly suggest again they can travel outside of Bob's own story to be relatable to any number of artist you're going to make me lonesome when you go without quite a few covers and this time as well and it's got that kind of ancillary catchy thing is also gone wasn't beyond right little change of the stick in your head a little ear worms Absolutely and I think I think Dylan's way with the melody is something that's often overlooked you know the focus is a lot of the focus is by the Iraq's. But some of his songs are. The most amusing of these and as you say they they just stick with you. And this song is it's a sort of uptempo sprightly song harks back maybe a little bit to Nashville Skyline that fades shortly when he plays it on tour it has a slight country LOL to. Gallons another almost felt betrayed by Than again I think that was the intelligence here like what is gone country I think ruining his crooning I think that was the 1st. The 1st time I Ari dare he had other music than just. Having with Johnny Cash How dare he had no interest in high time kind of makes all that look so petty than a little it could also mean I think I think you know 4050 years on it's all it's all music and everybody can see what the where the influences are and. I think country music was always there for Bob was always there always there are huge fan of all that stuff back to his very earliest as well take us tonight we have some other less appreciated versions as well the play for you and the epic unfairly vicious and used the term vicious are on there as well but Bob could be vicious and he could he waited a fairly nasty panel Idiot Wind will be played tonight it went is fairly VS is a worry vicious piece of work nasty piece of work and so much and I before that though the sweet. Rather country ask you're going to make me lonesome when you go. Bob Dylan from blood in the truck Steven Caulker affair with me because he really was trust me on the lies that's a splendid album an album that still stands proud I think in the ones and credible back catalog was one of his very best perhaps because there's no other album within the last couple of it really feels like this is interesting you know I think it's it is unique in that sense it's the album that everyone always refers back to you every time he releases an album it's always that this is the best sense is always Blood On The Tracks is probably the other one is not and then if you're talking mid sixty's it's always I was 16 on that there are these pics I suppose that curiously non-committal and on exciting cover as well the kind of blurry image on the cover it's kind of drab is no that doesn't really sell the album doesn't and again I I'm not sure why if he'd been taking art classes he he didn't feel he could. Knock off the cover himself but thankfully didn't do that when he did the great and Bob's own artwork is never the greatest but it's not the most it's a lowering of covers it's apparently is actually a photograph of him but some processed it was solar eyes they're not quite sure what that means but again this is the seventy's and it's a very something but the stance of something obscured you can see it's Delhomme you can see it's there or he's hiding behind a shared the cover is slightly blurred and I am reading too much into it but not all Clinton Helen also have gone all the. Behind the she heads of books and always intrigues me you know just. Such a personal album that that's almost a noncommittal cover doesn't really want you to know too much and that the songs were of a more than it probably ever harms you know it doesn't give much away the cover Sadly I do not have an original copy. But the original version came with sleeve notes. Which were written by a I think guy called Pete Hamill. They sort of had to they explicitly say this is a very personal. Album you know. He's making art art of his personal experience and for all their own Dylan's then denials that that was the case it just seemed all to me that you know there was such an explicit statement on the cover itself for example that song you're going to make me lonesome isn't is not about his wife apparently dancer but his assistant with her me how it had an affair or was having an affair for about 12 months. So again he puts that song on the album he clearly it's a it's an explicitly personal song is he putting it out there for his wife to hear or see it's it's an all you never transaction gas the Long Island pillow that's what we're doing but I suppose the biggest clue is that when the blood on the tracks it's you know it's blood on the carpet as you're kind of see in the it is that he tossed her mouth of all sorts of things it is a kind of crime scene in some ways and it is on US A That's why I think it's interesting that there are lyrical changes between the 1st album that was a version that was recorded and the 2nd version is knowing musically is that softer and more commercial but he smoothed sides some of the rougher edges and he did something wrong to say that when we come to it when but if you can imagine what they already have Russia must be like back to Biograph and you know just bored for Biograph it was a kind of revelation when it came it was and these days we're kind of used to have and sights and songwriting techniques and on the kind of behind the curtain if you like the biography was quite something it was it was I mean I I remember buying it when it came out I don't think vinyl was probably the only option back then and I didn't want a set copy some of the copies came out in 1905 and it was. One of the 1st box out sort of properly curated box sets that I can remember and the interesting thing was it wasn't on chronologically the hits were there but there were also obscurities and there were on released trucks. So the version of You're a big girl now K.-Mart. Several other tracks that you know you'd read about it and you'd heard about Dylan has formed before leaving great tracks of albums I mean it's almost every other album there's a rumored masterpiece that has been been. Abandoned or caught at the last minute you know Blind Willie McTell is the one from infidels which is clearly better than anything that made the album and he just for some reason. Thought better of it and decided than set the mood or. I think it's impossible Johnson gas his thinking on these things. Again a lot of songs recorded for blood on the tracks that didn't make it one of which turned up on Biograph which is a song called up to me and I have to say it's one of my favorite. Songs and. Why it didn't make the album The album's very long album this is a very long song. Just who manages to me. Too many of the song quality the albums were 15 minutes long and the sign quality on vinyl suffers. It's quite similar to shelter from the storm. So props to similar or perhaps it was too personal. But whatever reason I think the song is it is a fantastic song and I'm not alone in the Rolling Stone rate this not a great one for ranking songs I do like lists. But really so rate this number 49 in their list of Dylan's bassed 100 songs but yet it was never released. At the time so very good cover version by Roger were going on Carter froze which I could recommend if you have all those all your old precedings that came with Mojo they got Roger McGuinn to re record of our show up in July 2005 you go back to your my guessing collection you can find out CD of all those magazines that there must dig through and get which is much closer to Dylan's acoustic version so the cover versions are great but again what we've got is. Sort of a narrative of which skips around and plays with time plays with your kind of sense of of the protons are switching It's a classic example of the songwriting to the time. Ever think when from bad to worse money never change and things. Can follow prime minister at least. Speech he really was sure and that is from Biograph from 105 finally got its release so that's up to me very interesting period and Bob Jones life of course from the time of blood on the tracks on the songs were flowing and we had mentioned a little while back about the slightly versus element to Bob Well throughout his career really Stephen because it's something that I used to think was quite sort of you know acidy and quite funny when he was in his mid sixty's prime and he was you know being really nasty to John bears and. You know there is something about that Dylan period was when you look back and it was quite nasty and it was he was quite unpleasant the reserves the Clearly a very cruel aspect of her personality and I think particularly where women are concerned I mean you know the female protagonists in his songs do not come on it well. But yes I would not like to get on the wrong side of Bob Dylan or be featured in the song Bible don't he said that one of my favorite Dylan songs is positively 4th straight which is as vicious attack on a put Diane as you can imagine but you know out of the Thin Man for example. Yeah there is a sort of a vicious aspect to his songwriting that comes out from time to time on this album I think it reaches its peak with the song it went. This far Lentulus is not it it's actually fresh versus new to be another insult it really is it's there's that there's a. Sort of Harl of rage and it's directed several different targets I mean clearly he's looking at his wife and their relationship and. He's also looking at critics and you feel that all of this is just tumbling eye of him. But it's very focused again he turns of phrase it's a song that divides critics Hyland again Clinton Highland thinks this is the greatest song of he said the greatest love slash hit song of the 20th century was one of the other critics says this is a very mediocre song struggling to pile image upon image and I run it in the starts of greatness. Other people have compared it to Like a Rolling Stone and I think that's actually not a bad comparison in the same way that Like a Rolling Stone There's a lot of finger pointing going on and he's directing that attack on some hard as it failed you know as a very sort of direct here he's doing the same thing although again he's not above looking at himself and again I think that's on usual it's very rare I think that you get a sense that Dylan is is taking a critical look at his own. Behavior. The song itself there's a line from from the painter that I mentioned earlier Norman Rayburn. He said there is an idiot wind blowing and blinding all human existence he's really seems to be talking about sort of stupidity. Gossip Boids sort of an Anna day of the Prasoon the stupidity of the public all of the things that we were still talking about 3040 years you know gossip. High negative. For all its rage this I think there's one of the funniest lines and I was just funny. To me so it starts off you know someone planting stories in the press I don't know who it is but I wish they'd caught our eye they say I took a shot a man named Gray and took his wife to Italy and she inherited a 1000000 bucks and when she died it came to me I can't help it if I'm lucky. You think I have no idea what that verse is about other than as a good payoff other than but it's a set up it's a it's a it's a it's a jokey 1st virus but at same time I think he's making a serious point about stories in the press and about the criticism that he's faced for 8 years and again there's a sense that there's it years of resentment poor you know it's on to the pages he's writing this that people have criticized him for trying to be happy for trying to later to mask that life that's come across in the song as well as. He's also directed at the sweet lady in the background who we have to presume is his wife. And a very very vicious piece of work on a tumble of images and I mentioned Pete Hamill slave notes on the original pay and I think he's trying to sum up. The state of Dylan's art the state of the world Turkey the US and he says of these songs and when I think in particular these are as personal and as universal as he gets or Blake he speaks for himself and in doing so he speaks for us all regret now in cali a sense of inevitable farewell mixed with sly humor rage and a sense of simple joy that's life and it's all all life is there and he actually quote C It's I think this is the key I think to the song he says yet said we make art of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with ourselves poetry and I think all of these are ridges or Tom by night and the choruses you know you're an idiot it's a wonder you still know how to breathe you're an idiot I don't know how you get through but the final chorus chorus is we are idiots babe it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves so he's including himself so after all of this where he's talking about you'll never know what I've been through and I don't know the same by you and that makes me feel so sorry where Eddie it's a wonder we can even feed ourselves and I think that he's acknowledging his own flaws so after at the very end of this 78 minute rant. That didn't happen and Like a Rolling Stone didn't happen and positively for straight so I think that's a sign of a more mature look at him but it's it's a little bit older. They had well they don't really you know they don't see it as well and I think you kind of I grow that out maybe. But I think this album is one I think the other thing about this album is there are some great churns there are some great melodies and they're all quite simple I mean I don't really play the guitar but I can play a couple of these songs that they're quite simple but the melodies are are are very engaging and stay with you. And I think it's again I think it's a good entry point. For anybody coming to Dylan certainly if I was doing a. Serve a mix tape of you know this is what you should be lest you want to make a mix CD or as a memory stick now a little bit of a list and I think. There are certainly there are 2 or 3 songs off this album that would make it every time and it was actually very difficult for this particular exercise to not simply come in and say well you know what just by the whole thing for a start run just let it run from Start for example used to realize that one thing sex is very really like the new album from whoever just just let it play and once it's finished just flip it over and play it again it it's very difficult I find it very difficult to decide what not. To talk about it only this will direct people back to the album as well anyway and that they are proceeding at a. Phone or 2 because it's a fascinating period you've chosen to end it a little bit differently as well and we go to a different market and yes I took the liberty of moving to the next album which is desire. And the reason for that. But on the tracks as I was very much seen as the break up album or the section of his marriage and his relationship he never really I think wrote anything as direct again except he did wants which was on the next album. By July of 975 he was back in the recording studio he was doing a follow up which was desire he had a new band it was a much more collaborative exercise he was working with a co-writer a guy called Jack Levy or Levy who had worked with Roger McGraw and wrote the song chestnut mare. So it was it was a very different fail to the album and it wasn't as personal and then the tales are that his wife was in the studio and not having told the band that he was going to do this and I think them not having heard the song he suddenly said right we're going to play this so. He had the lights them his wife was in the studio and he played the song Sarah which is absolutely literally song to her she is in the studio she doesn't know that he's going to do this by all accounts she was absolutely dumbfounded by lives and it's a complete laying bare he's dropped even even the sort of. Elliptical slightly cryptic approach on the blog on the tracks and everything is just there on the most interesting you know he says I wrote sad eyed lady of the lowlands for you and he talks about their relationship you know mystical wife and it worked and there was a reconciliation. But as I say that was July 975 by your poll 76 something had gone wrong again and he was saying it went to her instead of Sarah but I thought this was an interesting. Follow up and it's really I think the last. Comment from him on the marriage there's a song on on street legal which is not a widely admired album but I have to say it's probably my favorite Donna album. Blog On The Tracks you know wherever. So-called Where are you tonight which some people say is it's common to concentrate on the marriage but I think this is really the last word on the end of the period in that relationship and last word on a limb is no well that we've been looking out so much blood in the truck's bald Radio whilst or take it easy. Sorry songs of her going out of words I just mumble I really love those things on Dylan's last album really Rosemary Jacques Rogge. 1900. 6041 media. B.B.C. Radio one. With the P.B.C. News this is Keith Burnside the dishes called for the U.K. To propose plans from the Turned of Irish border backstop well of advance of the use summit on the 17th of October there Brad Crow was speaking in Brussels after missing the E.U. 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