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A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks
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A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks Paperback - 2005

by Andy Gill; Kevin Odegard


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"So fascinatingly behind-the-scenes that it will make you listen to the album as if you've never heard it before."--Esquire In 1974 Bob Dylan wrote, recorded, reconsidered, and then re-recorded the best-selling studio album of his career. Blood on the Tracks was composed as Dylan's twelve-year marriage began to unravel, and songs like "Tangled Up in Blue" and "Shelter from the Storm" have become templates for multidimensional, adult songs of love and loss. Yet the story behind the creation of this album has never been fully told; even the credits on the present-day album sleeve are inaccurate. Dylan recorded the album twice-once in New York City and again in Minneapolis, with a rag-tag gang of local musicians, quickly rewriting many of the songs in the process. For A Simple Twist of Fate, the authors have interviewed the musicians and producers, industry insiders, and others, creating an engaging chronicle of how one musician channeled his pain and confusion into great art.

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BOB DYLAN STOOD AT A ROW OF VENDING machines with his five-year-old son Jakob, feeding loose change into the coffeemaker, selecting the brew he would sip for the next three hours in the studio down the hall.

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  • Title A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks
  • Author Andy Gill; Kevin Odegard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition export ed
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York
  • Date 2005-03-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780306814136 / 0306814137
  • Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.24 x 5.54 x 0.7 in (20.93 x 14.07 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Dylan, Bob
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006275413
  • Dewey Decimal Code 782.421

About the author

Andy Gill is a leading critic for the Independent, and has edited or written for NME, Q, Mojo, Rolling Stone, GQ, and Maxim. He lives in London. Kevin Odegard was a brakeman on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad when he was asked to play guitar on Blood on the Tracks. He has written for USA Today, Billboard, and other periodicals. He lives in Wayzata, Minnesota.
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