By 1975, even the most passionate of fans began to resign themselves to the fact that Bob Dylan had passed his artistic peak. Albums like New Morning and Planet Waves weren't bad but lacked the visionary spark of his earlier work. He seemed to have died out at the age of thirty-four and it was precisely this prejudice that made Blood On The Tracks such a glorious record. It joins his best and darkest
… work with lyrics about lost love and the struggle for inner peace. With a simple, country-tinted accompaniment (in the style of Nashville Skyline), Dylan tells in painful details about broken love relationships in songs like Simple Twist Of Fate and If You See Her Say Hello. In the vengeful Idiot Wind, he lashes out at a self-obsessive person á la his victim in Like A Rolling Stone.more