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Podcast: New Books in Popular Culture
Episode: Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik, "Blood in the Tracks: The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan's Masterpiece" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Description: The story of the Minneapolis musicians who were unexpectedly summoned to re-record half of the songs on Bob Dylan's most acclaimed album.When Bob Dylan recorded Blood on the Tracks in New York in September 1974, it was a great album. But it was not the album now ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the ten best of all time. âWhen somethingâs not right, itâs wrong,â as Dylan puts it in âYouâre Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Goââand something about that original recording led him to a studio in his native Minnesota to re-re...