Editing Blood on the Tracks (section)

==Critical reception and legacy==
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/blood-on-the-tracks-mw0000189846|title=Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan – Songs, Reviews, Credits – AllMusic|website=AllMusic|access-date=July 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170721071530/http://www.allmusic.com/album/blood-on-the-tracks-mw0000189846|archive-date=July 21, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[Chicago Tribune]]''
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref>{{cite news|last=Kot|first=Greg|author-link=Greg Kot|issue=October 25|year=1992|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1992/10/25/dylan-through-the-years-hits-and-misses/|title=Dylan Through The Years: Hits And Misses|newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=September 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918084804/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-10-25/entertainment/9204060639_1_star-freewheelin-bob-dylan-rolling-thunder-revue-tour|archive-date=September 18, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|year=2011|title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|page=2006|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|isbn=978-0-85712-595-8}}</ref>
| rev4 = [[Music Story]]
| rev4Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.music-story.com/bob-dylan/blood-on-the-tracks|title=Album Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks|website=[[Music Story]]|language=fr|date=n.d.|access-date=November 26, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121126202148/http://www.music-story.com/bob-dylan/blood-on-the-tracks|archive-date=November 26, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev5      = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev5Score = 5/5<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Graff|editor-first1=Gary|editor-last2=Durchholz|editor-first2=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|edition=2nd|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/369 369, 371]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/369}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6Score = 10/10<ref>{{cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22485-blood-on-the-tracks/|title=Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks|work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|date=October 30, 2016|access-date=October 30, 2016|last=Jarnow|first=Jess|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030203559/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22485-blood-on-the-tracks/|archive-date=October 30, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite journal |title=Review: ''Blood on the Tracks'' |journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]] |location=London |page=131 |issue=December |year=1993}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Sheffield">{{cite book|last=Sheffield|first=Rob|author-link=Rob Sheffield|year=2004|editor1-first=Nathan|editor1-last=Brackett|editor1-link=Nathan Brackett|editor2-first=Christian|editor2-last=Hoard|title=[[The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]]|chapter=Bob Dylan|pages=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/262 262, 264]|publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]]|isbn=0-7432-0169-8}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Sputnikmusic]]''
| rev9Score = 5/5<ref>{{cite web|last=Butler|first=Nick|date=June 26, 2006|url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=742|title=Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks|website=[[Sputnikmusic]]|access-date=September 19, 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140919062732/http://www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=742|archive-date=September 19, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev10Score = A<ref name="Christgau"/>
}}

Released in early 1975, ''Blood on the Tracks'' initially received mixed reviews from critics.{{sfn|Williamson|2004|p=113}} ''Rolling Stone'' published two assessments. The first, by [[Jonathan Cott]], called it "Dylan's magnificent new album". The second reviewer, [[Jon Landau]], wrote that "the record has been made with typical shoddiness."<ref name = "Heylin 383"/> In ''[[NME]]'', [[Nick Kent]] described "the accompaniments [as] often so trashy they sound like mere practice takes",<ref name = "Heylin 383">{{harvnb|Heylin|2011| p=383}}</ref> while ''[[Crawdaddy]]'' magazine's Jim Cusimano found the instrumentation incompetent.{{sfn|Williamson|2004|p=113}}

An influential review of the album was written by Dylan critic [[Michael Gray (author)|Michael Gray]] for the magazine ''[[Let It Rock (magazine)|Let It Rock]]''. Gray argued that it transformed the cultural perception of Dylan, and that he was no longer defined as "the major artist of the sixties. Instead, Dylan has legitimized his claim to a creative prowess as vital now as then—a power not bounded by the one decade he so affected."<ref name = "Heylin 384">{{harvnb|Heylin|2011| p=384}}</ref> This view was amplified by [[Clinton Heylin]], who wrote: "Ten years after he turned the rock & roll brand of pop into rock&nbsp;... [Dylan] renewed its legitimacy as a form capable of containing the work of a mature artist."<ref name = "Heylin 384"/> In ''[[The Village Voice]]'', [[Robert Christgau]] wrote that although the lyrics occasionally evoke romantic naiveté and bitterness, ''Blood on the Tracks'' is altogether Dylan's "most mature and assured record".<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|issue=January 27|year=1975|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv52.php|title=Consumer Guide (52)|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|location=New York|access-date=September 19, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140803045806/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv52.php|archive-date=August 3, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

Since its initial reception, ''Blood on the Tracks'' has been viewed by critics as one of Dylan's best albums.{{sfn|Williamson|2004|p=113}} In [[Salon.com]], Wyman wrote: "''Blood on the Tracks'' is his only flawless album and his best produced; the songs, each of them, are constructed in disciplined fashion. It is his kindest album and most dismayed, and seems in hindsight to have achieved a sublime balance between the logorrhea-plagued excesses of his mid-1960s output and the self-consciously simple compositions of his post-accident years."<ref>{{cite news|title=Bob Dylan|work=[[Salon.com]]|date=May 5, 2001|url=http://www.salon.com/2001/05/22/dylan_3/|access-date=May 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121028095716/http://www.salon.com/2001/05/22/dylan_3/|archive-date=October 28, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Bell, in his critical biography of Dylan, wrote that ''Blood on the Tracks'' was proof that "Dylan had won the argument over his refusal to argue about politics. In this, he began to seem prescient."<ref>{{harvnb|Bell|2012|p=556}}</ref> Bell concluded the album "might well count as one of the best things Dylan ever did".<ref>{{harvnb|Bell|2012|p=558}}</ref> Novelist [[Rick Moody]] called it "the truest, most honest account of a love affair from tip to stern ever put down on magnetic tape".<ref name="Hedin">{{harvnb|Hedin|2004|p=109}}</ref>

A result of the acclaim surrounding the album has been that when critics have praised one of Dylan's subsequent albums, they have often described it as "his best since ''Blood on the Tracks''".<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Jody|last=Rosen|title=Bob Dylan's Make-Out Album|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2148563/|magazine=Slate|date=August 30, 2006|access-date=March 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128130043/http://www.slate.com/id/2148563/|archive-date=January 28, 2007|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|first=Robert|last=Christgau|title=Not Dead Yet|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/dylan-spi.php|magazine=Spin|date=March 1998|access-date=March 22, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230061336/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/music/dylan-spi.php|archive-date=December 30, 2006|url-status=live}}</ref> According to music journalist [[Rob Sheffield]], ''Blood on the Tracks'' became a benchmark album for Dylan in the years that followed because it was "such a stunning comeback".<ref name="Sheffield"/>

The album was also included in the book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]''.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Robert Dimery|author2=Michael Lydon|title=1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die: Revised and Updated Edition|date=February 7, 2006|publisher=Universe|isbn=0-7893-1371-5}}</ref>

Hip hop group [[Public Enemy]] reference it in their 2007 Dylan tribute song "[[Long and Whining Road]]": "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back / You bet there's blood on them Bomb Squad tracks".<ref>{{Citation|title=Public Enemy – The Long and Whining Road|url=https://genius.com/Public-enemy-the-long-and-whining-road-lyrics|language=en|access-date=2021-04-12}}</ref>

A film adaptation of the album is currently in pre-production, under the direction of [[Luca Guadagnino]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|first=Nathaniel|last=Heller|title=Luca Guadagnino's Cinema of Desire|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/luca-guadagninos-cinema-of-desire|date=October 8, 2018|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|access-date=February 8, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|first=Justin|last=Kroll|title=Bob Dylan's 'Blood on the Tracks' Album Getting Movie Treatment|url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/bob-dylan-blood-on-the-tracks-movie-luca-guadagnino-1202983403/|date=October 17, 2018|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|access-date=February 8, 2023}}</ref>