Editing Tangled Up in Blue (section)

== Background and recording ==
The song was written in the summer of 1974, after Dylan's [[Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour|comeback tour]] with [[The Band]] that year and his separation from [[Sara Dylan]], whom he had married in 1965. Dylan had moved to a farm in Minnesota with his brother, David Zimmerman, and there started to write the songs that were recorded for his album ''[[Blood on the Tracks]]''.<ref name="UNCUT">{{Cite web |title=Shelter From The Storm – the inside story of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks |url=https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/shelter-from-the-storm-the-inside-story-of-bob-dylan-s-blood-on-the-tracks-15656/ |last=Hasted |first=Nick |date=15 November 2013 |website=Uncut |orig-year=2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715011356/https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/shelter-from-the-storm-the-inside-story-of-bob-dylan-s-blood-on-the-tracks-15656 |archive-date=15 July 2018 |access-date=6 April 2020}}</ref> In the spring of 1974, Dylan had taken art classes at [[Carnegie Hall]] and was influenced by his tutor [[Norman Raeben]], and in particular Raeben's view of [[time]], when writing the lyrics.<ref name="UNCUT" /><ref name="Rogovoy2009">{{Cite book |last=Rogovoy |first=Seth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdbgeObYgIkC&pg=PA160 |title=Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet |date=24 November 2009 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4165-5983-2 |access-date=July 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184046/https://books.google.com/books?id=IdbgeObYgIkC&pg=PA160 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|160}}<ref name="GillOdegard2004">{{Cite book |last1=Gill |first1=Andy |last2=Odegard |first2=Kevin |url=https://archive.org/details/simpletwistoffat00gill |title=A Simple Twist of Fate: Bob Dylan and the Making of Blood on the Tracks |date=January 2004 |publisher=[[Da Capo Press]] |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-306-81231-6 |page=148 |url-access=registration}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Bob Dylan: The Rolling Stone Interview, Part 2 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-the-rolling-stone-interview-part-2-173545/ |first=Jonathan |last=Cott |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=16 November 1978 |access-date=3 October 2020 |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805103955/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-the-rolling-stone-interview-part-2-173545/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Richard F. Thomas]], Professor of the [[Classics]] at [[Harvard University]], has written that Dylan has been "characteristically vague" on the use of any specific painting techniques emulated while he was writing the words for the songs on ''Blood On The Tracks''.<ref name="Thomas2019">{{cite book|first=Richard F. |last=Thomas|title=Why Bob Dylan Matters |date=2017|publisher=Harper Collins |location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-268573-5 |pages=32–33}}</ref> According to novelist [[Ron Rosenbaum]], Dylan told him that he'd written "Tangled Up in Blue" after spending a weekend listening to [[Joni Mitchell]]'s 1971 album ''[[Blue (Joni Mitchell album)|Blue]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2007/12/the_best_joni_mitchell_song_ever.html|title=The Best Joni Mitchell Song Ever|last=Rosenbaum|first=Ron|date=2007-12-14|newspaper=Slate|language=en-US|issn=1091-2339|access-date=2016-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161016053229/http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2007/12/the_best_joni_mitchell_song_ever.html|archive-date=October 16, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

Dylan first recorded "Tangled Up in Blue" in New York City on 16&nbsp;September 1974 during the initial ''Blood on the Tracks'' sessions at [[A & R Recording|A&R Studios]].<ref name="Heylin2010" /> Eight takes were recorded in New York from 16 to 19 September, mostly featuring Tony Brown on bass alongside Dylan on guitar and harmonica,<ref name="UNCUTMBMT" /> and containing some minor variations in lyrics, as well as differences in vocal delivery, and [[tempo]].<ref name="NYORK" /> Two of the versions later released on ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks (Deluxe edition)'' also include [[Paul Griffin (musician)|Paul Griffin]] on organ.<ref name="UNCUTMBMT" /> That December, working from a suggestion from his brother that the album should have a more commercial sound, Dylan re-recorded half the songs on ''Blood on the Tracks'', including "Tangled Up in Blue" on 30 December at [[Sound 80]] in [[Minneapolis, Minnesota]].<ref name="Heylin2010">{{Cite book |last=Heylin |first=Clinton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jaSeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT55 |title=Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1974–2008 |date=29 April 2010 |publisher=[[Little, Brown Book Group]] |location=London |isbn=978-1-84901-494-6 |pages=25–34 |access-date=July 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184046/https://books.google.com/books?id=jaSeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT55 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="OHAGAN">{{Cite news |last=O'Hagan |first=Sean |date=28 October 2018 |title=The raw, painful birth of Blood on the Tracks |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/28/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-raw-painful-birth |url-status=live |access-date=5 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190417055617/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/28/bob-dylan-more-blood-more-tracks-raw-painful-birth |archive-date=17 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Chris |year=2007 |title=Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks Review |work=BBC |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/659x/ |url-status=live |access-date=5 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190919065715/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/659x/ |archive-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>

David Zimmerman was the [[record producer|producer]] for the Minneapolis ''Blood on the Tracks'' recordings, but was not credited on the album.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bream |first=Jon |title=Minnesotans finally get credit for playing on Bob Dylan's 1975 classic "Blood on the Tracks" |url=https://www.startribune.com/minnesotans-finally-get-credit-for-playing-on-bob-dylan-s-1975-classic-blood-on-the-tracks/499161281/ |date=31 October 2018 |work=[[Star Tribune]] |location=Minneapolis |access-date=7 October 2020 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001113110/https://www.startribune.com/minnesotans-finally-get-credit-for-playing-on-bob-dylan-s-1975-classic-blood-on-the-tracks/499161281/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The re-recorded versions were radical departures from the original recordings, and each new recording included changes to the lyrics from the earlier versions.<ref name="UNCUT" /><ref name="Creswell2007">{{Cite book |first=Toby |last=Creswell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhYnNaM0zEUC&pg=PA24 |title=1001 Songs |date=1 November 2007 |publisher=Hardie Grant Publishing |isbn=978-1-74273-148-3 |pages=24–25 |access-date=July 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184046/https://books.google.com/books?id=bhYnNaM0zEUC&pg=PA24 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Dalton2012">{{Cite book |last=Dalton |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDcDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT346 |title=Who Is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan |date=1 June 2012 |publisher=[[Omnibus Press]] |location=London |isbn=978-0-85712-779-2 |pages=346–347 |access-date=July 24, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003184047/https://books.google.com/books?id=SDcDAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT346 |url-status=live }}</ref> This recording featured a full band: [[Kevin Odegard]] (guitar), Chris Weber (guitar) Gregg Inhofer (keyboards), [[Billy Peterson]] (bass), and [[Bill Berg (musician)|Bill Berg]] ([[Drum kit|drums]]), with Dylan singing, and on guitar and harmonica.<ref name="Heylin2010" /> These musicians were based locally and had arrived at Zimmerman's invitation, and Dylan had not met them before they started working together on 27 December.<ref name="UNCUT" />

The Minneapolis version was included as the opening track on ''Blood on the Tracks'', released on 20 January 1975,{{efn|name=dateq|Some sources state the release date as 17 January 1975}}<ref name="BDBOTT">{{cite web |title=Tangled Up in Blue |url=http://www.bobdylan.com/albums/blood-tracks/ |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=bobdylan.com |publisher=Sony Music Entertainment |access-date=5 October 2020 |archive-date=September 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200917111207/http://www.bobdylan.com/albums/blood-tracks/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="UNCUT" /> and in February as a single backed with "[[If You See Her, Say Hello]]".<ref name="Krogsgaard1991">{{cite book|first=Michael |last=Krogsgaard|title=Positively Bob Dylan: A Thirty-year Discography, Concert & Recording Session Guide, 1960-1991|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i7cQAQAAMAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Popular Culture|isbn=978-1-56075-000-0 |page=106}}</ref> The single reached number 31 on the [[Hot 100]] chart.<ref name="Nogowski2008">{{cite book|first=John |last= Nogowski|title=Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography, 1961–2007, 2nd ed.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g1WQBQAAQBAJ|date=28 April 2008|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-3518-0 |page=66}}</ref> Outtakes of "Tangled Up in Blue" from the New York sessions were released in 1991 on ''[[The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991]]'' and in 2018 on the single-CD and 2-LP versions of ''[[The Bootleg Series Vol. 14: More Blood, More Tracks]]'', while the complete New York sessions were released on the deluxe edition of the latter album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bobdylan.com/news/more-blood-more-tracks-the-bootleg-series-vol-14-to-be-released-on-november-2/|title=More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 to Be Released on November 2 {{!}} The Official Bob Dylan Site|website=www.bobdylan.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105064613/https://www.bobdylan.com/news/more-blood-more-tracks-the-bootleg-series-vol-14-to-be-released-on-november-2/|archive-date=November 5, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The deluxe version of  ''The Bootleg Series Vol. 14'' also included a remix of the December 1974 master issued on ''Blood on the Tracks''.<ref name="MBMTREL">{{Cite web |title=More Blood, More Tracks – The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 to Be Released on November 2 {{!}} The Official Bob Dylan Site |url=https://www.bobdylan.com/news/more-blood-more-tracks-the-bootleg-series-vol-14-to-be-released-on-november-2/ |website=www.bobdylan.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105064613/https://www.bobdylan.com/news/more-blood-more-tracks-the-bootleg-series-vol-14-to-be-released-on-november-2/ |archive-date=5 November 2018 |access-date=21 October 2018}}</ref>