“I’ll Fix This. I Can Make It Cool Again!” (Vol. 2)

In a new occasional series for paid subscribers. I’m going to take albums that need “fixing” and make them what they should have been…

Today’s fix is for Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks.

What? I hear you say? “Fixing” that album? You, Simon, must love that album!? And indeed I do. I named my old blog after it, basically. I came up with Blog On The Tracks as a bit of a multi-pronged pun, giving I would be blogging every day about music tracks — and because Blood On The Tracks is very much considered one of the great albums, and one I loved. Was I suggesting, instantly, that my lowly music blog was going to be one of the greats…

Well, Duncan Grieve, creator and owner of The Spinoff was super-insulted by my blog title, calling it “rock-ist” whatever that means. Because, you know, that was a handy shortcut to actually reading it and finding out we talked about all sorts of things on that blog — from Paul Ubana Jones and Darren Watson to free jazz, and Motown, and metal, and folk, funk, jazz, something approaching the gamut.