Tangled up in blue. She was workin' in a topless place And I stopped in for a beer, I just kept looking' at the side of her face In the spotlight so clear. And later on, as the crowd thinned out I's about to do the same, She was standing there in back of my chair Said to...
Tangled up in blue. Album version All guitars are in standard tuning. Dylan plays uncapoed, with A major keys. The guitar in the left channel (Kevin Odegard) plays with a capo at the 2nd fret and with G major keys, and the one in the right (Chris Weber, on his 12-string Guild) ...
A similar effect is achieved in "Tangled up in Blue" (1975), in which the tagline is prepared by a shorter line, in order to drive to the final cadence on "blue": this word is progressively stretched from verse to verse, in both the album version and several live recordings. This ...
He had already given something away, during the ritual acoustic performance of “Tangled Up in Blue.” This dense little tale, which may be about two couples, one couple, or one couple plus an interloper, seems autobiographical: it’s easy to guess what Dylan might be thinking about when ...
The great Missouri passing below repeated the same succession of chords it probably will play for a million years to come. The only other motion was the moon floating across the lenses of Gisborne’s glasses, which at last were unobservant. This is the death of a scientist, a scientist who...
“in” at the time, justification for violence from that same god and the murderous sociopathy necessary to carry it out are all you need. And those are the four chords that have dragged us kicking and screaming through history thus far, not withstanding more recent “rules” that are ...