A West Coast record chain released a test pressing of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, one of rock’s rarest records with only five known existing copies. Amoeba Music recently acquired the test pressing of the classic LP, dubbed the “New York” version, as part of 4,000 vinyls it acquired from the personal collection of “an iconic industry family.” All of those Blood songs were originally recorded in New York, but as legend has it, after Dylan played one of the test pressings for his brother David Zimmerman, he was encouraged to re-record those five songs in Minnesota with local musicians in order to brighten up the stark album.
