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Blood in the Tracks - The Minnesota Musicians behind Dylan's Masterpiece (Hardcover)
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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. “When something’s not right, it’s wrong,” as Dylan
puts it in “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”—and
something about that original recording led him to a studio in his
native Minnesota to re-record five songs, including “Idiot
Wind” and “Tangled Up in Blue.” Six Minnesota musicians
participated in that two-night recording session at Sound 80,
bringing their unique sound to some of Dylan’s best-known
songs—only to have their names left off the album and their
contribution unacknowledged for more than forty years. This book
tells the story of those two nights in Minneapolis, introduces the
musicians who gave the album so much of its ultimate form and
sound, and describes their decades-long fight for recognition.
Blood in the Tracks takes readers behind the scenes with
these “mystery” Minnesota musicians: twenty-one-year-old
mandolin virtuoso Peter Ostroushko; drummer Bill Berg and bass
player Billy Peterson, the house rhythm section at Sound 80;
progressive rock keyboardist Gregg Inhofer; guitarist Chris Weber,
who owned The Podium guitar shop in Dinkytown; and Kevin Odegard,
whose own career as a singer-songwriter had paralleled Dylan’s
until he had to take a job as a railroad brakeman to make ends
meet. Through in-depth interviews and assiduous research, Paul
Metsa and Rick Shefchik trace the twists of fate that brought these
musicians together and then set them on different paths in its
wake: their musical experiences leading up to the December 1974
recording session, the divergent careers that followed, and the
painstaking work required to finally obtain the official credit
that they were due. A rare look at the making—or
remaking—of an all-time great album, and a long overdue
recognition of the musicians who made it happen, Blood in the
Tracks brings to life a transformative moment in the history of
rock and roll, for the first time in its true context and with its
complete cast of players.
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