"Tangled Up In Blue" is a song by Bob Dylan. It appeared on his album BLOOD ON THE TRACKS in 1975. Released as a single, it reached #31 on the Billboard Hot 100. Rolling Stone ranked it #68 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
THE TELEGRAPH has described the song as "The most dazzling lyric ever written, an abstract narrative of relationships told in an amorphous blend of first and third person, rolling past, present and future together, spilling out in tripping cadences and audacious internal rhymes, ripe with sharply turned images and observations and filled with a painfully desperate longing."
Dylan first recorded "Tangled Up In Blue" in New York City on 16 September 1974 during the initial BLOOD ON THE TRACKS sessions at A&R Studios. That December, working from a suggestion from his brother that the album should have a more commercial sound, Dylan re-recorded half the songs on BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, including "Tangled Up In Blue", in Minneapolis. The re-recorded versions were radical departures from the original recordings, and each new recording included changes to the lyrics from the earlier versions. The New York version of this song is in open E tuning. Individual outtakes from the New York sessions were released in 1991 on THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 1-3 (RARE & UNRELEASED) 1961–1991 and in 2018 on the single-CD and 2-LP versions of THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL.14: MORE BLOOD MORE TRACKS, while the complete New York sessions were released on the deluxe edition of the latter album.] The deluxe version of The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 also included a remix of the December 1974 master issued on BLOOD ON THE TRACKS. According to novelist Ron Rosenbaum, Dylan told him that he'd written "Tangled up in Blue" after spending a weekend immersed in Joni Mitchell's 1971 album BLUE.
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