Today, self-proclaimed dad-rocker Andy Golledge joins Jeremy Dylan to talk about Bob Dylan’s iconic ‘Blood on the Tracks’.
They talk about how Dylan’s new love of painting may have informed the songwriting, speculate about Dylan’s exercise regime, how Blood on the Tracks has replaced Blonde on Blonde as the consensus best Bob Dylan album, the different portrayals of love on the record, the more grounded lyrics compared to Dylan’s 60s music, how Dylan’s carefully maintained mystique protects his personal life, why Dylan rerecorded the album after the initial batch of sessions, how Andy fell in love with the record while driving across America, the prolificacy of Hank Williams Jr, listening to albums on cassette, how the structure of Tangled Up in Blue has influenced Andy’s songwriting and the upcoming James Mangold directed Bob Dylan biopic starring Timothee Chalamet.