Eight Page Booklet
Tony Brown – Bass
Buddy Cage – Steel Guitar
Paul Griffin – Organ
Eric Weissberg & Deliverance [Additional Instruments]
Liner Notes: Pete Hamill (New York, 1974)
Cover Photo: Paul Till
Illustrations: David Oppenheim
Art Direction: Ron Coro
Produced for Reissue by Steve Berkowitz
CD Stereo Mastering: Greg Calbi/Sterling Sound
Tape Research: Didier Deutsch, Matt Kelly, Debbie Smith
Additional photos courtesy of Ken Regan and Dylan Archives
Repackage Design: Skouras Design
After having listened to the alternate takes and outtakes from the New York sessions on Biograph and The Bootleg Series, I have to say that the information that I deduced from the given sources is obviously not quite correct. Only "Call Letter Blues" (a "Meet Me In The Morning" soundalike) was recorded by the full band (including electric guitar and drums). The alternative "You're A Big Girl Now" was apparently recorded with the credited trio (steel guitar, bass, organ) whereas all other alternate takes and outtakes are just Dylan (guitar & harmonica) with a second guitar and/or bass. As there are divergent recording dates on Biograph and divergent lineups on The Bootleg Series, I don't correct these data for now, but maybe will when submitting those box sets.
Regarding the official album credits: The "Engineered by Phil Ramone" credit from the LP cover is nowhere to be found on the CD release.
Regarding the liner notes: Pete Hamill wrote them after having heard a test pressing with only the New York recordings. Although they were partly obsolete after the replacement of five tracks, Columbia kept them because the covers were already printed - and then they kept them because Hamill won a Grammy for them. Only some years later Columbia exchanged the notes with a bigger illustration by David Oppenheim, like on the earlier CD issue. (I bought the LP in 1976 and it still had the original cover for the first pressing, with black typeface liner notes.)
In case that the linked page will vanish one day, I try to make a list of the musicians actually involved:
September 16, 1974, at New York's A&R Studio (directed and engineered by Phil Ramone): Eric Weissberg & Deliverance
Eric Weissberg, guitar & banjo, Charlie Brown, lead guitar, Richard Crooks, drums, Tony Brown, bass, Tom McFaul, keyboards, Barry Kornfeld, guitar.
"Meet Me In The Morning", alternative takes of "You're A Big Girl Now" (released on 1985's Biograph), "Tangled Up In Blue", "Idiot Wind", "If You See Her, Say Hello" (all released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1–3), and "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts" (not officially issued).
Outtakes: "Up To Me" (released on Biograph), "Call Letter Blues" (released on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1–3).
September 17 & 19, 1974, same place:
Buddy Cage, pedal-steel guitar, Tony Brown, bass, Paul Griffin, organ.
"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go", "Shelter From The Storm", "Simple Twist Of Fate", and "Buckets Of Rain".
December 27 & 30, 1974, at Minneapolis' Sound 80 studio (organized by Dylan's brother, David Zimmerman, engineered by Paul Martinson):
Kevin Odegard, guitar, Billy Peterson, bass, Bill Berg, drums, Gregg Inhofer, keyboards, Chris Weber, guitar, Peter Ostroushko, mandolin.
Final versions of "You're A Big Girl Now", "Idiot Wind", "Tangled Up In Blue", "Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts", and "If You See Her, Say Hello".
This was the third CD issue of Blood On The Tracks, as remixed for SACD in 2003. Hand in hand with the improved sound, it has an enhanced 8-page booklet, with Pete Hamill's profound original liner notes and additional photographs. However, neither these liner notes nor the musicians' credits, taken from the original album cover, take note of the fact that half of the album had been re-recorded on December 27, 1974 in Minneapolis, with different local musicians, see The Making of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks.