On November 25, 2011, Don DeVito died aged 72. He was musician (guitar), record producer and music business executive. He started playing guitar on tours with Al Kooper, and has his own band The Sabres. He worked with Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, and Aerosmith, but was best known as producer of some of the most important Bob Dylan’s albums, including “Blood on the Tracks”, “Desire”, “Street Legal”, “Hard rain”, and “Bob Dylan at Budokan”. In 1989 DeVito won “Grammy Award” for “Best Traditional Folk Recording”.
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Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
On January 20, 1975, “Columbia” label released “Blood on the Tracks”, the fifteenth Bob Dylan studio album. It was recorded in September 1974, at ”A & R Recording “in New York, and December, 1974, at “Sound 80” in Minneapolis, and was produced by Bob Dylan. In 2003, magazine “Rolling Stone” ranked the album at number 16, on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of all Time”, and in 2004, it was placed at number 5 on “Pitchfork Media’s” list of the “Top 100 Albums of the 70s”. “Blood on the Tracks” was certified 2 x Platinum in the US by “RIAA”.
Personnel
- Bob Dylan– vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Buddy Cage– steel guitar
- Barry Kornfeld – guitar
- Charles Brown III – guitar
- Kevin Odegard – guitar
- Chris Weber – guitar, 12-string guitar
- Eric Weissberg– banjo, guitar
- Peter Ostroushko– mandolin
- Thomas McFaul – keyboards
- Paul Griffin– organ, keyboards
- Gregg Inhofer – keyboards
- Billy Peterson– bass guitar
- Tony Brown – bass guitar
- Bill Berg– drums
- Richard Crooks – drums
Track listing
All tracks by Bob Dylan.
- Tangled up in Blue
- Simple Twist of Fate
- You’re a Big Girl Now
- Idiot Wind
- You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
- Meet Me in the Morning
- Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
- If You See Her, Say Hello
- Shelter From the Storm
- Buckets of Rain
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