Blood in the tracks : the Minnesota musicians behind Dylan's masterpiece /

Type de publication:

Book

Source:

University of Minnesota Press,, Minneapolis, United States, p.xii, 201 pages : (2023)

Numéro d'appel:

ML420.D98

Mots-clés:

1971-1980, 20th century., bisacsh, États-Unis, Histoire et critique., History and criticism., Minnesota., MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional., MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock., Musicians, Musiciens, Musique populaire, Popular music, Production and direction, Sound recordings, United States

Notes:

Introduction : When something is right -- "Heading out for the East Coast" -- "When something's not right, it's wrong" -- "Music in the cafés at night" -- "Heading for another joint" -- "He's singing his song for me" -- "Everyone of them words rang true" -- "They're planting stories in the press" -- "All you can do is do what you must" -- "Blown out on the trail" -- "Hear me singing through these tears" -- Epilogue : "What they do with their lives"."Blood in the Tracks tells the story of two nights in Minneapolis when six Minnesota musicians participated in a recording session with Bob Dylan as he re-recorded five songs on Blood on the Tracks, 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"--"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 Going to 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 of the songs on that landmark album, including "Idiot Wind" and "Tangled Up in Blue." Six Minnesota musicians sat in on 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, of the musicians who gave the album so much of its ultimate form and sound, and of 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 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 it took to finally get the official credit that was their due. A rare look at the making-or remaking-of an all-time-great album, and a long overdue acknowledgment of the musicians who helped make 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"--