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Friday, July 28, 2017

Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (live)

Probably the most definitive and popular of all Dylan albums, 'Blood On The Tracks' of 1975 features  the artist at his most creative, arguably his most poetic and the album features in most top ten albums in anybody's lists. Check this live version of the legendary 'Tangled Up In Blue  and listen carefully to his changing of the lyrics and wonder at Bobby's ability to remember all those fine fine words. This is indisputably Dylan at his very best . . . . . McCormick, Neil of The Telegraph wrote: "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."




 . . . . . it is probably true that I own more albums by Dylan than any other artist and have bought everything I think from 'The Times the Are A' Changing' onward although there may have been exceptions and they may not exactly have been bought in sequence it is now fair to say I own all the official studio albums. I also have more ROIO's by Dylan than any other artist and wouldn't care to guess as to how many this is. The first Dylan bootleg I bought was a foreshortened Great White Wonder of his with the Band called the 'Little White Wonder' a singular album of the Basement tapes era Dylan. I bought it in The Netherlands with my wife and brother, Steve whilst we passed through a little town called Amersfort and found a little bootleg shop. It is my pride and joy as the artwork alone is worth seeking out . . . . . 

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