“Tangled Up in Blue”
Album cover
Single by Bob Dylan from the album Blood on the Tracks
Released	January 17, 1975
Genre	Folk rock
Length	5:42
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan singles chronology
"All Along the Watchtower" (1974) "Tangled Up in Blue" (1975) "Hurricane" (1975)
Blood on the Tracks track listing
"Tangled Up in Blue" (1) "Simple Twist of Fate" (2)

"Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Blood on the Tracks is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 15th studio album released in 1975 by Columbia Records, which marked Dylan's return to Columbia Events 38 BC - Octavian marries Livia Drusilla. 1287 - King Alfonso III of Aragon invades Minorca Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Folk rock is a musical genre combining elements of Folk music and rock music. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Columbia Records is an American Record label founded in 1888 Columbia is the oldest surviving Brand name in pre-recorded sound being the first record company A songwriter is someone who writes the Lyrics to songs the Musical composition (chords or Melody to songs or both Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major " All Along the Watchtower " is a folk song written and recorded by Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Hurricane is a Protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy, about the imprisonment of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. Blood on the Tracks is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 15th studio album released in 1975 by Columbia Records, which marked Dylan's return to Columbia " Simple Twist of Fate " is a song by Bob Dylan, released on his 15th studio album Blood on the Tracks in 1975. Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman, May 24 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota) is an American singer-songwriter author poet and painter who has been a major It appeared on his album Blood on the Tracks in 1975. Blood on the Tracks is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan 's 15th studio album released in 1975 by Columbia Records, which marked Dylan's return to Columbia Rolling Stone ranked it #68 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Rolling Stone is a United States -based Magazine devoted to Music, Politics, and Popular culture that is published

Contents 1 Lyrics 2 Covers and references 3 Footnotes 4 External links

Lyrics

"Tangled Up in Blue" is one of the most clear examples of Dylan's attempts to write "multi-dimensional" songs which defied a fixed notion of time and space. Dylan was influenced by his recent study of painting and the Cubist school of artists, which sought to incorporate multiple perspectives within a single plane of view. Cubism was a 20th century Avant-garde Art movement, pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European In a 1978 interview Dylan explained this style of songwriting: "What's different about it is that there's a code in the lyrics, and there's also no sense of time. There's no respect for it. You've got yesterday, today and tomorrow all in the same room, and there's very little you can't imagine not happening. "

The lyrics are at times opaque, but the song seems to be (like most of the songs on the album), the tale of a love that has, for the time being, ended; but not through choice; the last verse begins:-

So now I'm goin' back again,

I got to get to her somehow. . .

and ends

We always did feel the same,

We just saw it from a different point of view,

Tangled up in blue.

Dylan continually re-worked the lyrics even after the album was released; the version on his live album Real Live has radically different lyrics. Real Live is a Live album documenting Bob Dylan 's 1984 tour of Europe, released at the end of that same year by Columbia In live performances he has often sung some of the verses in the third person, as opposed to the first person point of view in the Blood on the Tracks version.

Ron Rosenbaum wrote in Slate^[1] that Dylan had told him he wrote the song after spending a weekend immersed in Joni Mitchell's Blue. Blue is the 1971 album of Canadian -born singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.

The song contains one of the more famous mondegreens in rock and roll music: "We split up on a dark, sad night," understood by many listeners as "We split up on the docks that night. A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song due to near homophony. Rock and roll (also known as rock 'n' roll) is a form of Music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s with roots in mostly African "

Covers and references

The song has been covered by various artists, including Great White, Jerry Garcia, Robyn Hitchcock, the Indigo Girls, Ani Difranco, the String Cheese Incident and The Whitlams on their Eternal Nightcap album of 1997. Great White is an American Hard rock band formed in Los Angeles that gained semi-popularity during the 1980s and early 1990s Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia (August 1 1942 &ndash August 9 1995 was a Musician, Songwriter, Artist, and Lead guitarist and Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born March 3, 1953) is an English Singer-songwriter and guitarist Indigo Girls are an American Folk rock duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. Ani DiFranco (ˈɑːniː (born Angela Maria DiFranco on September 23 1970 is a Grammy Award winning Singer, Guitarist, and Songwriter The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s formed in Boulder, Colorado in 1993 The Whitlams are a piano-based rock band based in Sydney. The original band consisted of Tim Freedman, Stevie Plunder and Andy Lewis Eternal Nightcap is the third studio Album by Australian band The Whitlams, first released by Black Yak Phantom in 1997 Scottish Folk singer-songwriter K.T. Tunstall covered the song on The BBC show Later with Jools Holland. See also Folk (disambiguation, Volk (disambiguation Folk is one of the Germanic roots that mean "(of the people" or "our Kate Victoria "KT" Tunstall (born 23 June 1975 is a Scottish Singer-songwriter. Later with Jools Holland is a contemporary British Music television show hosted by Jools Holland. She released it as a B-side on her 2005 single, "Under the Weather".

In the Hootie & the Blowfish song "Only Wanna Be with You" the singer (Darius Rucker) mentions that he is "tangled up in blue". Hootie & the Blowfish was an American rock band that enjoyed widespread popularity in the second half of the 1990s " Only Wanna Be with You " is a rock Song released in 1995 by Hootie & the Blowfish, the third single from their breakthrough album Darius Rucker (born May 1 1966 in Charleston South Carolina) is an American musician "Yeah I'm tangled up in blue / Only wanna be with you / You can call me your fool / Only wanna be with you " The reference extends a string of mentions of Bob Dylan in the song, beginning at the start of the second verse: "Putting on a little Dylan . . . "

The Scandinavian-American rockband Jungle Dreams(with the Scandinavian Rock Star Kim Larsen, as vocalist), have performed a version of this song, on the album Sittin On A Time Bomb, with not the full text. Kim Larsen (born October 23, 1945 in Copenhagen) is a Danish Rock musician Inspired by The Beatles and Rock and The text "a hair was still red", are changed to "if a hurty hair, was still red".

The alternative rock band, Queens of the Stone Age, make a play on "Tangled Up in Blue," with their song "Tangled up in Plaid," from their album "Lullabies to Paralyze". Queens of the Stone Age (also known as QOTSA or simply Queens) are a rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States Lullabies to Paralyze is the fourth Studio album by Hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age and was released on March 21 2005 Although the Queens of the Stone Age song has no real relation to "Tangled Up in Blue," besides the titles.

The Belgian TV-host Bart Peeters, who is also a singer-songwriter, made a Dutch version of the song. Bart Peeters ( Mortsel, 30 November 1959) is a Flemish Singer, Drummer, television presenter and Actor. The lyrics are modified by him, and as a result he tells a more personal story about how he met his wife. The Dutch title is "Prachtig in het blauw".

Barb Jungr, a British based award winning jazz singer, covers "Tangled Up In Blue" on her album Every Grain Of Sand. Barb Jungr born 9 May 1954 in Rochdale, England is a Musical performer, Composer and Writer, of The album celebrates the songwriting of Dylan.

There is several Beatles songs reference to in the lyrics:

• "Like it was written in my soul from me to you" = From Me To You
• "And revolution in the air" = Revolution 1
• "Was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew" = Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

Footnotes

External links

• Lyrics

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