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`Blood on the Tracks' session musicians reunite and remember.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Rob Hubbard
ST. PAUL, Minn. _ Bob Dylan was dissatisfied. He'd returned to his native Minnesota for a holiday visit in late December 1974, and he was telling his brother he'd just recorded a new album but was increasingly unhappy with the results, ruing some of the decisions he'd made in the studio in New York.
So, his sibling, David Zimmerman, suggested they book a studio in Minneapolis, get some local musicians and re-record some of the songs.
It was the beginning of a Twin Cities musical legend that is being celebrated this week.
The album was "Blood on the Tracks," widely regarded as the songsmith's most intimate masterpiece, a work inspired by the decline of his marriage to Sara Lowndes. And the musicians who played on those Minneapolis sessions are reuniting to perform songs from the album in the company of a group of guest vocalists at Minneapolis' Pantages Theatre on Wednesday.
One of the musicians, guitarist Kevin Odegard, is the co-author of a new book about the making of the album, "A Simple Twist of Fate," named for one of its songs. But fate dealt no one ...
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