Tangled Up in Blue: Deciphering a Bob Dylan Masterpiece

Wikipedia - "'Tangled Up in Blue' is a song by Bob Dylan. ... 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. 'Tangled Up in Blue' is one of five songs on Blood on the Tracks that Dylan initially recorded in New York City in September 1974 and then re-recorded in Minneapolis in December that year; the later recording became the album track and single. The New York version of this song is in open E tuning.'Tangled Up in Blue' is one of the clearest 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, who sought to incorporate multiple perspectives within a single plane of view. As Neil McCormick remarked in 2003: 'A truly extraordinary epic of the personal, an unreliable narrative carved out of shifting memories like a five-and-a-half-minute musical Proust.' ..."
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