Tapping into a seam of gold: The best of '75
India, Dec. 28 -- M
usic was already a big part of my life in 1975. I had my father's Western classical music LPs, and Beatles, Rolling Stones and Doors records borrowed from luckier friends in Calcutta. But at 16, I didn't fully grasp what that year was giving the world.
I came to the best 1975 albums only years later, in moments that often involved personal revelations. As this year ends and these masterpieces turn 50, I find myself returning to them with something more than nostalgia. With gratitude.
This was a phenomenally generous year. It gave us Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, a meditative introspection that blends acoustic back into the electric; a work so deeply personal that it seemed to anticipate the confessional era of song-wr...
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