This is one of the reasons I love this forum so much.
As a GenXer I understand if you guys roll your eyes but my favorite Dylan record is Blood on the Tracks. There, I said it.

Also, fantastic pickups everyone. You never disappoint.

I played that record nonstop in the summer of 75. It's right up there with the early classics IMO even if the songs were more personal and less social. Some amazing acoustic guitar, very evocative of different moods. Did you know that many of the songs have alternate takes that are available?

It's as good a record as he ever made. The followup, "Desire," is also excellent, and IMO the last of his 15-year run of stone classic albums. If I had to name my favorite, it would be "Bringing It All Back Home," from 1965.

She did some wonderful covers of his songs, and also wrote two great songs about her and Bob, "Diamonds and Rust," and about her sister Mimi, "Sweet Sir Galahad."

Congrats on an awesome auction, Al!

Happy to have won this, and I think at a great price...

Nice looking Cobb

Congrats

Her studio Farewell Angelina is one of my favorite songs of all time. Haunting and her delivery is perfect.

Baez is wildly underrated, having been overwhelmed by the succeeding waves of great 60s music she helped pave the way for, and typecast as possessor of a great natural voice but not much more. In time she will be rediscovered and take her rightful place among the pantheon of fabulous talent from that era, I believe.

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Also a big fan of Blood on the Tracks and as I was reading the other posts it just occurred to me: I always took the title to refer to railroad tracks...but it could refer to the tracks of an album. As for great covers, it's hard to top Jimi Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower".

I always liked PPM's Blowin' in the Wind and Too Much of Nothing. Also Fairport Convention's Percy's Song. Hard too to argue with the Byrds' My Back Pages and Mr. Tambourine Man.

Yes, "Blowin' in the Wind" was a classic as was "Mr. Tambourine Man". And in a weird way so was the Four Seasons' "Don't Think Twice (It's All Right)". I'm sure when I heard the last two on the radio, I did not know they were Dylan covers, being more familiar with top-40 radio than the concept of albums.

Johnny and June, It Ain't Me, Babe.

Born in Time
 

Here's one of the few cover versions I prefer to Bob's own, especially with the haunting photos in this video, which I couldn't stop watching for several weeks it affected me so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi6O0yRlJfE

Great video and great visual

Thanks for sharing

Thanks Jeff, much appreciated!

Amazing how this thread got hi jacked and is now about music. What is the matter with you people!

How'd you do in the auction?

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