Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (Top 500 Countdown Update)

It's hard not to like this album that exposes so well the talent of Dylan. The set of songs are extremely strong and the production is wonderfully tight blending a soft almost acoustic sound that brings out the emotion of the lyrics perfectly. This is the key to the record, because the lyrics are the key to Dylan. Although he performs wonderfully on this album, the strength lies in the words and the music here really bring the lyrics and accentuate them perfectly. Dylan shows great maturity in his singing on this record slowing down his presentation and actually performing the songs instead of just running of the words.