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Bob Dylan

Blood On The Tracks

1975 · Columbia PC 33235 · Stereo · US · LP · 33 1/3 RPM

Pressing details

Label	Columbia
Catalogue number	PC 33235
Year	1975
Mono / Stereo	Stereo
Country	US
Format	LP
Speed	33 1/3 RPM
Genre	Rock - Singer-Songwriter/Folk Rock
Producer	Bob Dylan (uncredited as producer on the jacket)
Composer	Bob Dylan
Musicians	Bob Dylan (guitar, harmonica, vocals), Tony Brown (bass), Buddy Cage (pedal steel guitar), Paul Griffin (organ), Eric Weissberg & Deliverance; uncredited on the jacket: Kevin Odegard (guitar), Peter Ostroushko (mandolin), Gregg Inhofer (organ, piano), Billy Peterson (bass), Bill Berg (drums), Chris Weber (guitar)

Matrix / Runout

Side A:  PAL33235-2H 3 B
Side B:  PBL33235-2AH 2 □ 2

Condition

Cover: NM-
Vinyl: NM-

Variant chronology

1975 - US Columbia white-label promo stereo, no timing strip, notched jacket corner
1975 - US Columbia standard commercial stereo issue, red labels, Terre Haute/Santa Maria pressing  <- this copy
1975 - UK CBS stereo pressing
1975 - Canada Columbia stereo pressing
1976-79 - US Columbia repress, later catalogue text variants
1988 - Europe CBS reissue - no price band found for this edition

This Pressing

Standard 1975 Columbia commercial stereo pressing - full-color COLUMBIA labels, not the white-label promo matched by the catalogue number; pressing plant not identified on the label.

The Album

Written in the wake of the breakdown of Bob Dylan's marriage and informed by a period of painting studies that pushed him toward a more fractured, time-shifting narrative style, this album marked his return to intensely personal songwriting after years of looser, more obscure lyricism. The songs were first recorded quickly in New York, but on the advice of his brother Dylan re-recorded several of them in Minneapolis with local musicians just weeks before release, giving the finished record a mix of spare and fuller arrangements. It arrived in the middle of a career that had already reshaped popular songwriting, following the elliptical imagery of his mid-1960s work and years of inconsistent albums, and it was received as a dramatic artistic resurgence. Songs like

Tracklist

Side 1

1. Tangled Up In Blue 5:40
2. Simple Twist Of Fate 4:18
3. You're A Big Girl Now 4:36
4. Idiot Wind 7:45
5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go 2:58

Side 2

1. Meet Me In The Morning 4:19
2. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts 8:50
3. If You See Her, Say Hello 4:46
4. Shelter From The Storm 4:59
5. Buckets Of Rain 3:29

The Label

The side labels are the standard full-color red-and-yellow COLUMBIA commercial design with the catalogue number, track listing and a 1974 CBS Inc. copyright line - there is no evidence on the label of a white-label promotional pressing. Columbia used this red/yellow house design across its catalogue through the mid-1970s, with the specific pressing plant identified only in the deadwax rather than on the label face itself. The runout suffixes on this copy (2H / 2AH) do not match either of the stamper pairs recorded for the promo pressing matched to this catalogue number, indicating this is a separate, standard commercial stamper run rather than that promo edition.

Fidelity

This pressing carries the familiar early analog cut used across Columbia's 1975 commercial stereo copies of this title, with the mastering engineer uncredited on the jacket and label. Collectors generally regard the original-era Columbia pressings as solid, warm-sounding copies, ranking above most of the later 1970s repressings but behind the more recent audiophile vinyl reissues that have since become the reference cut for critical listening. As an ordinary commercial stamper rather than a noted early lacquer, this copy sits in the middle of the album's overall fidelity hierarchy.

Notes

This is a standard-issue 1975 Columbia stereo pressing of PC 33235. The labels carry the full commercial COLUMBIA design with track listing and a 1974 CBS Inc. copyright line, not a plain white-label promo format. The runout stamper suffixes read 2H on side one and 2AH on side two, a pairing distinct from the promo pressing's stampers, placing this copy as an ordinary commercial stamper run of the title. The pressing plant is not identified on the label.

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