Released 50 years ago, Blood on the Tracks holds a unique place in Bob Dylan’s catalogue for its raw emotional candor. It paces the cage of its 51 minutes with the ragged gait of a prisoner’s confession. Its recording aesthetic shifts from song to song as perspectives shift within the songs, making the album sound as wounded, reflective, regretful, or enraged as the characters feel. The unifier is Dylan’s voice, singing these tales with the conviction of one who has survived