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Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks (1974 Test Pressing Needledrop)(Howlin' Husky Source)

Track listing:
  1. Tangled Up In Blue 6:50
  2. Simple Twist Of Fate 4:21
  3. You're A Big Girl Now 4:21
  4. Idiot Wind 8:49
  5. You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go 2:58
  6. Meet Me In The Morning 4:24
  7. Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts 9:47
  8. If You See Her, Say Hello 3:23
  9. Shelter From The Storm 4:59
  10. Buckets Of Rain 3:22

Notes


Blood On The Tracks Test Pressing
All recorded in NYC July 16-19, 1974

Collected by PL from a disk owned by PH.

This is a complete original "test pressing". Various copies of this have been used to make bootlegs and fan compilations, most of which subtract the 5 released tracks and add other released tracks (everybodys a producer).

I still have doubts about this really being a "pressing" as opposed to a one-off acetate, I know of only 2 other copies (both given to session players). Such a small numbetr would hardly justify making a "pressing". PH (an old collector) tells me it is indeed a "pressing" and that he sometimes sees other copies on eBay, but they could be bogus and I am unconvinced.

I believe this runs at the correct speed. Oddly, all tracks are in the key of E.
/Lowgen June 2014

1 Tangled Up In Blue
2 Simple Twist Of Fate *
3 You're A Big Girl Now ^
4 Idiot Wind
5 You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go *
6 Meet Me In The Morning *
7 Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts
8 If You See Her, Say Hello
9 Shelter From The Storm *
10 Buckets Of Rain *

* released on BoT
^ released on Biograph with a different mix.