Gray argued that it transformed the cultural perception of Dylan, and that he was no longer defined as "the major artist of the sixties. The narrator of the song memorializes an affair of ten years ago instead of singing about Dylan's marriage. It remains one of Dylan's best-selling studio releases, with a double-platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for at least two million copies sold in the United States. However, on the live At Budokan album, Dylan seems to acknowledge the autobiographical nature of the song "Simple Twist of Fate" by introducing it as "Here's a simple love story.

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Due to this process, there may be occasional pops or ticks inherent in initial play back, but as the disc is played more, a high quality stylus will actually polish the grooves and improve the sound). After ten days [18] and four sessions [20] with the current lineup, Dylan had finished recording and mixing, and, by November, had cut a test pressing of the album.

A film adaptation of the album is currently in pre-production, under the direction of Luca Guadagnino. He also wrote one of his most extensively covered songs, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, as well as what is now recognised as one of his best albums Blood On The Tracks. One of Bob and Sara Dylan's children, Jakob Dylan, has said, "When I'm listening to Blood On The Tracks, that's about my parents.Creatively, he appeared at a stalemate, his previous decade's unprecedented run of transformational brilliance finished. The songs have been linked to tensions in Dylan's personal life, including his estrangement from his then-wife Sara. 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.