Blood on the Tracks is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on January 20, 1975, by Columbia Records. The album marked Dylan's return to Columbia Records after a two-album stint with Asylum Records. Dylan began recording the album in New York City in September 1974. Dylan becomes more vicious in the years that follow, culminating in the booklet Biograph (1985), in which he even starts to scold those "stupid and misleading jerks" with their "unimaginative mentality" who think that it is about his divorce. To no avail. "BOTT" is stubbornly honored as The Divorce Album. In his autobiography Chronicles (2004), Dylan then takes a different turn: "Eventually I would even record an entire album based on Chekhov short stories - critics thought it was autobiographical - that was fine."Blood on the Tracks is the fifteenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on January 20, 1975, by Columbia Records. The album marked Dylan's return to Columbia Records after a two-album stint with Asylum Records. Dylan began recording the album in New York City in September 1974. In his autobiography Chronicles (2004), Dylan then takes a different turn: "Eventually I would even record an entire album based on Chekhov short stories - critics thought it was autobiographical - that was fine."