Bob Dylan / Blood On The Tracks (Columbia, PC 33235) <January 20, 1975> MAT ; 2C / 2AB

Bob Dylan / Blood On The Tracks (Columbia, PC 33235) <released ; January 20, 1975>

ファースト・プレスのみ裏ジャケのデザインが異なります。WLP（white label promo）と、通常ラベルのプロモがあり、またプロモ間でもマトリクスがかなり異なります。これはマト末尾が「2C/2AB」です。

70年代ではこの作品と次回の"Desire"の評価が特に高いですが、アクが強く大作が多いためか好き嫌いの分かれる"Desire"よりも、感情に訴えかける曲が多い（ように思います）本作品のほうが人気が高いような気がします。こちらのプロモのほうが手に入りにくいのは、その辺が影響しているのでしょうか。

このアルバムは別れの曲が多いですが、率直で分かりやすい"If You See Her, Say Hello"がいいですね。あと辛辣な"Idiot Wind"と。このセッションの全貌を収めた「モア・ブラッド、モア・トラックス」は、かなり聴き応えのある内容でした。

"If You See Her Say Hello"

If you see her say hello she might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring is living there I hear
Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her don't tell her it isn't so.

We had a falling-out like lovers often will
And to think of how she left that night it still brings me a chill
And though our separation it pierced me to the heart
She still lives inside of me we've never been apart.

If you get close to her kiss her once for me
I always have respected her for doing what she did and getting free
Oh whatever makes her happy I won't stay in the way
Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night I tried to make her stay

I see a lot of people as I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town
And I've never gotten used to it I've just learned to turn it off
Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm getting soft.

Sundown yellow moon I replay the past
I know every scene by heart they all went by so fast
If she's passing back this way I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl6GOxZsZsg&list=PLsxEp5rw-EiuyFy6Ve6caH9gCQWFnmzW5