Decision

A lot of contemplation. A lot of fretting. Back and forth. Pros and cons. Yes and no!! I changed my mind seemingly every five minutes for the past week. I was actually growing exhausted from the conflicting voices in my head.

It came down to it's being one of the greatest albums of all-time. It's one of my personal desert island discs. Top five even!! I listened to it daily when it first came out over forty years ago. When I was young, naive and sentimental and going through several powerful emotions for the first time.

Is it important to me? Is it too extravagant of me? Do I deserve it? Will I sit down and listen to the whole thing? Will it have repeated listens?

I listened repeatedly to song samples. I loved its sad beauty. I was remembering feelings that I hadn't experienced for almost half a century. Remembering a specific person that suddenly came and went from my world back then. Visual flashbacks were happening.

I read reviews that called it an essential historical document in music. I knew that eventually, I was going to either get it or if it reached a point where it wasn't available ...... regret not getting it for the rest of my life. It was costly but this has always been my passion .... collecting music. That's my main thing!!

I made up my mind to make the purchase!!! I nervously sped through city streets on my five mile, rush hour journey to the record store, swearing at yellow and red lights along the way and at cars moving too slowly for my satisfaction. Afraid that I'd change my mind once again. Worried that someone else had beat me to it.

Bob Dylan's, "Blood On the Tracks." was the original record. I bought it on vinyl the day it was released, my Freshman year in college (early 1975 as I recall) ..... This, the recently released box set, "More Blood, More Tracks."