"Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by Bob Dylan. It appeared on his album Blood on the Tracks in 1975. Rolling Stone ranked it #68 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades. ... Blood on the Tracks is a 1975 album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. ... This article is about the magazine. ... ...

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. 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." Woman with a guitar by Georges Braque, 1913 Cubism was an avant-garde art movement that revolutionised European painting and sculpture in the early 20th century. ...

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 ended. Dylan continually re-worked the lyrics even after the album was released; the version on his live album Real Live has radically different lyrics. 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. Real Live is a live album by Bob Dylan. ...

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 at night." A mondegreen is the mishearing (usually accidental) of a phrase in such a way that it acquires a new meaning. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...

Covers and references

The song has been covered by various artists, including Jerry Garcia, the Indigo Girls, Ani Difranco, the String Cheese Incident and The Whitlams on their Eternal Nightcap album of 1997. British Folk singer-songwriter K.T. Tunstall covered the song on The BBC show Later with Jools Holland. She released it as a B-side on her 2005 single, "Under the Weather". Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician, songwriter, and artist perhaps best known for being the lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead. ... Indigo Girls are an American folk rock duo, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. ... Ani DiFranco (IPA: ) (born Angela Maria Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. ... Back: Jason Hann, Michael Travis, Billy Nershi, Kieth Moseley Front: Kyle Hollingsworth, Michael Kang The String Cheese Incident, one of the bands involved in the jam movement of the mid-to-late 1990s, formed in Crested Butte, Colorado in 1993, originally playing local gigs at ski resorts in exchange for... The Whitlams is an Australian band famous for songs such as No Aphrodisiacand Blow up the Pokies. The Whitlams sound can best be described as Piano rock founded in lyrics of charming cynicism. The bands name is a tribute to former Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam. ... It has been suggested that Eternal_Nightcap_-_New_Zealand_Release be merged into this article or section. ... Folk can refer to a number of different things: It can be short for folk music, or, for folksong, or, for folklore; it may be a word for a specific people, tribe, or nation, especially one of the Germanic peoples; it might even be a calque on the related German... KT Tunstall performing at the 2005 Summer Sundae in Leicester Kate KT Tunstall (born 23 June 1975, Edinburgh) is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Fife. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... Later with Jools Holland is a contemporary music show hosted by Jools Holland. ... Under the Weather is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall and is featured on her debut album, Eye to the Telescope. ...

Another cover was done by Robyn Hitchcock. Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born March 3, 1953) is a singer-songwriter, psych folk artist, and occasional actor. ...

In the Hootie & the Blowfish song "Only Wanna Be with You" the singer (Darius Rucker) mentions that he is "tangled up in blue". "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 ..." Hootie & the Blowfish are an American pop-rock band, originally formed at the University of South Carolina by Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim Soni Sonefeld and Mark Bryan. ... Only Wanna Be With You is a pop song released in 1995 by Hootie & the Blowfish, the third single from their breakthrough album Cracked Rear View. ... Darius Rucker performing in 2004 Darius Rucker (born May 13, 1966 in Charleston, South Carolina) is the lead singer of the band Hootie & The Blowfish. ...

There is also a film version of the song called "Tangled Up in Brown". The text refers to the main plot of the TV show Firefly, told from the viewpoint of the ship's captain, Malcolm Reynolds. Firefly is a science fiction television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, under his Mutant Enemy Productions. ... Malcolm Mal Reynolds is a fictional character leading the ensemble in the science fiction television series Firefly, played by actor Nathan Fillion. ...

The alternative rock band, The Queens of the Stone Age, make a play off of "Tangled Up in Blue," with their song "Tangled up in Plaid," from their album "Lullabies to Paralyze." Although the Queens of the Stone Age song has no real relation to "Tangled Up in Blue," besides the titles. Queens of the Stone Age (QotSA) is a rock music band from the Palm Desert, California area in the United States, formed in 1997. ...

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

Barb Jungr who is a British based award winning jazz singer covers TANGLED UP IN BLUE on her CD 'EVERY GRAIN OF SAND'The album celebrates the songwriting of Dylan.

Australian band, The Whitlams also covered the track on their 1997 album [[1]] Eternal Nightcap.

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