Now It Goes Like This: "Tangled Up in Blue"
Tracking the song's live arrangements from 1975 through 2018
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So far, two of the three songs for which I’ve done Now It Goes Like Thispieces—the series where I track a single song’s live arrangements—come from Blood on the Tracks. And I swear I’ll branch out again eventually, but, with the album’s 50th anniversary upon us, I thought I’d do one more. The big kahuna. The song he’s performed 1,725 times. “Tangled Up in Blue.”
Since Bob Dylan first performed it in 1975, on a tour also turning 50 this year, “Tangled” has borne a lot of different arrangements. Below, I go chronologically through them all.
Well, “all” depends on your definition. There are so many performances that I am focusing on major rearrangements. Not, like, he played it in the key of A one night and in the key of B the next, or he added a harmonica solo. Dramatic new musical arrangements that turn the song inside out. Which he did a lot.
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