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Title: This is Dylan at his best.
Review: I'm an older listener. I bought Blood On the Tracks (LP) twenty-some years ago. I still hear it, but I haven't actually listened to it for many many years. I still sing it, word for word, as if I've just heard it. That's the criteria by which I measure magnitude of the impact of this work. "Tangled Up in Blue" still is searing to me, "Isis" becomes so joyously salient with every new experience, adventure and the first snowstorm of every Winter. Measure the album by how it becomes part of you, by how often your own life experiences bring the songs to your lips. Indeed, the only point Dylan ever wanted to make was yours.
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