Bob Dylan’s fifteenth studio album, Blood on the Tracks, was released on January 20, 1975.
Dylan developed the ten characteristically complex and poetic—and seemingly also deeply personal—songs, including “You’re A Big Girl Now,” “Idiot Wind” and “Buckets of Rain,” over a period of months following his 1974 tour with The Band. The evolution of these songs can be traced in the so-called Blood Notebooks, which Dylan carried around and filled with handwritten lyrics and notes during this extraordinary burst of creativity, and on display at the Bob Dylan Center.
Upon its release, Blood on the Tracks reached number one on the Billboard 200 sales chart and remains one of Dylan’s best-selling and also most critically acclaimed albums, ranked number 9 in Rolling Stone’s 2020 list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and number 5 on Pitchfork’s list of the Top 100 Albums of the 1970s. In 2015, Blood on the Tracks was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
