Just to say: I've learned more watching your instruction, joy of play, and great taste in selection, beyond words. Heartfelt thanks for your contributions.,
Thanks for this one. My mom went to high school with Robert Zimmerman. She sang in the high school talent show that he sang in. Still has the yearbook. If anyone gets a chance need to look up the documentary on Hibbing high school it’s fascinating. The school was built with money from the mining company and is museum quality.
His talent in song writing is beyond genius. I was happy to see him win the Nobel prize in literature. Good to see him get the recognition he deserves.
Fantastic man! Thanks! I’ve been talking with Rob Stoner on Facebook (he has an old friend that knew my mother in the 80s)...fascinating character. Lots of great Rolling Thunder stories. I love the aggressive “Isis” in the film!
Great song from a tremendous album. As with his other recordings and performing style, Dylan's voice has always been the primary instrument, but this seems especially true with "Blood on the Tracks". Maybe because the album held together as one work with a continuity that he somehow pulled off from the start of the album through the last song on the other side, despite the range of emotions that he expressed in his delivery and writing. One of the few albums that felt like a single work of art to me with no songs I wanted to skip to or over. Thanks for putting this out there.
Your videos are my favorites. Enjoy your easy but no shit style. I especially love the tasty licks (that are like precious secrets) you include with your instruction vids. Thank you!
Cool a Doubleheader of great songs on the day the Bills will finally get that playoff win. Sugar Mt and this one. thanks James . Its game time I will work on this after the Bills victory.
Thanks JJ!! The World Gone Wrong album has some nice fimgerpicking folkie blues and as another commenter posted dylanchords info is a great site for Dylan fans. Congrats to your Bills and Go Stillers!
hey James, congrats on the Bills win. I think they could go all the way. AFC championship will be Chiefs -Bills IMO... anyway thanks 4 the lesson. Dylan is such a incredible song writer, love his music.
For the BLOOD ON THE TRACKS version Dylan had been playing "Tangled Up in Blue" in G when one of the session men recommended raising the key to push the energy a notch. Dylan agreed and rather than use a capo, just played the song in A -- without hesitation or mistake. (Everybody else just used a capo.) Dylan says he continued to work on the song for years after recording it and the final version is the one from REAL LIVE.
I believe he was actually playing it in Open D originally. There’s a story of how Dylan played all of the songs on the album in the key of D (in open D tuning) to Mike Bloomfield. Bloomfield later recalled how all of the songs sounded the same and how it was one of the weirdest experiences of his life. Dylan, however, did use open D on several tracks on the album: songs like “Simple Twist of Fate”, “Idiot Wind”, “You’re Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Go”’, and others. On the New York Session Dylan plays “Tangled Up in Blue” in the original open D. While still beautiful, it doesn’t sound as lively as the definitive version we all love.
Complicated man. Toured with Merle Haggard and Merle said he didn't say two words to him the whole trip. Finally, Bob asked "so, what do you think?" Merle said "get out there and the famous songs people came to hear! Not that piano crap you're playing." Merle was old school, he tried to please the audience each night. To make sure he had an audience the next night. Bob is an artistic genius who won the Noble Prize. Merle was a country legend with humble beginnings.
I love Blonde On Blonde - but a close second would definitely be Blood On The Tracks - every song is killer and impossible to become bored by. Thanx for the lesson ! Cheers 🥂
This showed up in my recommendation list. Great song. In my top 10 Dylan songs. As an Indianapolis resident I hated to see the Colts lose but losing to the Bills is a lot easier to digest than a loss to the Patriots. I'm hoping Colts-Bills becomes a rivalry the way Colts-Pats once was but with a few more Colts victories!
Great playing. And wonderful commentary about the non-binary tense changes. Always ahead of his time. Simple Twist of Fate is another amazing lyric from that (best) era. It’s circular. Unstuck in time. You can begin with any verse and it still makes perfect sense...
Great lesson and highlighting such a brilliant version of a brilliant song. I remember seeing that footage shown in the mid-late 70s on L.A. TV when I was a kid and being mesmerized. It was one of the first things I taught myself on guitar. Looking back, the themes and adult relationships were probably formative, too. When I looked at it today, though, it was the first time I wondered whether that was actually white makeup or somebody sneezed over the mirror?
It's a brilliant story. I prefer the slower tempo of the studio version, but this one has it's charm. Bet dropping down a whole step made it easier to sing though...
I have quite some trouble playing that f chord like that, at least when i try to play the low f with the thumb. Any tips on that, maybe how to hold my fretting hand? Though I think its mostly because of the wide fretboard and big neck on my acoustic.
Well, being a Saskatchewan Roughriders fan, I don't have any skin in the game, but if the Bills lose, will you do Streets of Baltimore? Which brings up another point: are there any songs at all about Indianapolis?
That must be the Buffalo Blue, but if they lose, then, my friend, you might really be in the Blues!!!! Maybe some new verses? I was wandering onto a football field in January, hoping for victory. But Baltimore was in the way, hoping for the Super Bowl, on that January day, Tangled up in Blue. Buffalo, in the old rust belt, trying to be reborn, cold and snow and summer dreams, will I ever know another way as I wander up the highway. Rochester, Niagara Falls, Owesgo and the Great Lakes, tangled up in blues. Football was a game I played, in my younger days, but I grew older, just to play guitar, but she never escaped my mind, tangled up in blues ! I married a beautiful wife, she let me buy guitars. Now you watch my videos, making me a star. Just call me James James, known by another name. Some knew me as Privet-tricker, but that was another time. Tangled up in Blue. Now I got a dog and so many guitars. Many fans know me well, but I don’t care about fame. I got a wonderful wife, dog and 20 guitars. Call me happy, call me content, my journey has been good, just know me as I play guitar. Tangled up in Blue.
This is awesome 👍. Thank you I always did this in A. Also try the open E (or open D or open Eflat) version as shown on dylanchords.info. I love making the lyrics kid friendly: She was working in an ice cream place. I stopped in for a cone. She kept looking at the side of my face. I said hey babe can I use your phone. ( This is equivalent to singing 'kool aid' when covering that Eric clapton song...). My kids are in for a surprise when hear these songs in the wild. So freaking special... Etc
JJ I noticed you switched to the Gibson Dove for this song and used your Martin for Sugar Mountain. Do you choose an acoustic based on a certain tone you are looking for on a specific song or did you just change to play another guitar? Another great lesson, thanks for upload. Cheers!
Best version for me is on real live. Like you said he changes the pronouns around it is genius. To be honest The best visions are real live or rolling thunder it is a toss-up between them too.
Small aside before the meat of the comment: Did you monetize? I got a short ad, for once. No problems with that, just wondering. I was taught this as G with a sus4 hammer-on the C on the b string. Or G11, whatever. I like your take better. I just can’t do that thumb over thing with F, even though my hands are larger than many. Also, my read is: G to F to C would indicate that that part is in C and the progression is V chord, IV chord, I chord. It then modulates to G with the D and E minor to C. i.e. I to V to vi to IV.
Bob Dylan is one of those songwriters who make you realize why it's called Music Theory and not Music Law. Physics has Laws, music has Theory, and to quote Scotty from Star Trek 'Ya cannae change the laws of physics captain', but it's o.k. to wander off the straight and narrow of theories, especially music. If it sounds good don't lose sleep trying to work out why it does even though you can't explain it in line with music theory. In the key of G the F Major could be a sub-dominant shift of the C Major which turns up eventually, but it might just be that way because Bob Dylan liked it that way.
I play exactly this version with a capo on 2. I find it easier with the G-shape as the root chord, it’s like J.J. says, you don’t have to move your hand very much. Also the capo puts it in A, which is they key of the original recording.
Just to say: I've learned more watching your instruction, joy of play, and great taste in selection, beyond words. Heartfelt thanks for your contributions.,
I worked on Dylan's estate in '85 and actually met him a few times, a cool guy who's done it all. This was a great memory jogger; thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this one. My mom went to high school with Robert Zimmerman. She sang in the high school talent show that he sang in. Still has the yearbook. If anyone gets a chance need to look up the documentary on Hibbing high school it’s fascinating. The school was built with money from the mining company and is museum quality.
Thanks for this! This one and Shelter From the Storm, are my two favourites from Mr. Zimmerman
I would tend to agree
Man I miss you JJ! Privettricker and this channel still mean a lot to me and the covers by band does!! Hope you are well, healthy and happy!!
Dylan is a brilliant song writer and a lyrical genius.
His talent in song writing is beyond genius. I was happy to see him win the Nobel prize in literature. Good to see him get the recognition he deserves.
It's a song about changing perspectives. This is his masterpiece. He deserves the Nobel Prize for this song alone.
Lyrically, I’d choose Visions of Johanna or It’s All Right Ma, but this is right up there.
@@jamesjames9275 I agree that he has more than one masterpiece. This one is it for me.
I love your love of Dylan. I share your admiration. Great lesson BTW.
Keep keeping on, Mr. James James. You make me happy and, I suspect, others as well.
Fantastic man! Thanks! I’ve been talking with Rob Stoner on Facebook (he has an old friend that knew my mother in the 80s)...fascinating character. Lots of great Rolling Thunder stories. I love the aggressive “Isis” in the film!
Utterly Brilliant, I could not agree more. Thanks for doing this one, it's inspiring. Please, do more Dylan classics.
the best part about this song is you could capo it, it put it in any key you want and it still sounds good no matter who sings it.
I couldn't agree more.
Totally agree with you on the 66 and 75 tours. Absolute bliss!
Thanks for your continuing inspiration and love of playing guitar.
keep rockin James!!!!
utterly brilliant sums up Dylan for sure
Great song from a tremendous album. As with his other recordings and performing style, Dylan's voice has always been the primary instrument, but this seems especially true with "Blood on the Tracks". Maybe because the album held together as one work with a continuity that he somehow pulled off from the start of the album through the last song on the other side, despite the range of emotions that he expressed in his delivery and writing. One of the few albums that felt like a single work of art to me with no songs I wanted to skip to or over. Thanks for putting this out there.
Your videos are my favorites. Enjoy your easy but no shit style. I especially love the tasty licks (that are like precious secrets) you include with your instruction vids. Thank you!
I’ve listened to this so often but never thought about the chord progression. This is brilliant....thanks a lot. 👍🍷
Cool a Doubleheader of great songs on the day the Bills will finally get that playoff win. Sugar Mt and this one. thanks James . Its game time I will work on this after the Bills victory.
You really get it. Great lesson with excellent commentary!
i saw the Rolling Thunder concert, people were stunned. Great stuff.
Thanks JJ!! The World Gone Wrong album has some nice fimgerpicking folkie blues and as another commenter posted dylanchords info is a great site for Dylan fans. Congrats to your Bills and Go Stillers!
One of my all time favorites for his.
Good luck to the Bills! I’m rooting for the city of Buffalo to finally win a championship
Right on!
hey James, congrats on the Bills win. I think they could go all the way. AFC championship will be Chiefs -Bills IMO... anyway thanks 4 the lesson. Dylan is such a incredible song writer, love his music.
Hope my bills win in2021-2022
Hell yeah!!!!! Bills fan here too.
Love the tune and story
I looove the acoustic set from live 75, learning these right now, maybe I'll upload full covers myself soon...
Great demo. I also like KT Tunstall's live version here on TH-cam. She does it in D and I think it sounds better in that key.
Thanks JJ, two of my favorite summers today. Rams and Bills today would be great.
strummers
Amazing! I share your reverence for this song and totally agree about Rolling Thunder. Thanks much!
For the BLOOD ON THE TRACKS version Dylan had been playing "Tangled Up in Blue" in G when one of the session men recommended raising the key to push the energy a notch. Dylan agreed and rather than use a capo, just played the song in A -- without hesitation or mistake. (Everybody else just used a capo.) Dylan says he continued to work on the song for years after recording it and the final version is the one from REAL LIVE.
I believe he was actually playing it in Open D originally. There’s a story of how Dylan played all of the songs on the album in the key of D (in open D tuning) to Mike Bloomfield. Bloomfield later recalled how all of the songs sounded the same and how it was one of the weirdest experiences of his life. Dylan, however, did use open D on several tracks on the album: songs like “Simple Twist of Fate”, “Idiot Wind”, “You’re Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Go”’, and others.
On the New York Session Dylan plays “Tangled Up in Blue” in the original open D. While still beautiful, it doesn’t sound as lively as the definitive version we all love.
Correct. He played the whole album in Open D.
Congrats ! They pulled it out. Allen looks great
Complicated man. Toured with Merle Haggard and Merle said he didn't say two words to him the whole trip. Finally, Bob asked "so, what do you think?" Merle said "get out there and the famous songs people came to hear! Not that piano crap you're playing." Merle was old school, he tried to please the audience each night. To make sure he had an audience the next night. Bob is an artistic genius who won the Noble Prize. Merle was a country legend with humble beginnings.
I had a chance to interview Merle Haggard shortly after the tour with Dylan. Merle referred to Dylan as “Top Billin’
I love Blonde On Blonde - but a close second would definitely be Blood On The Tracks - every song is killer and impossible to become bored by. Thanx for the lesson ! Cheers 🥂
This showed up in my recommendation list. Great song. In my top 10 Dylan songs. As an Indianapolis resident I hated to see the Colts lose but losing to the Bills is a lot easier to digest than a loss to the Patriots. I'm hoping Colts-Bills becomes a rivalry the way Colts-Pats once was but with a few more Colts victories!
Love that song,great lesson made my day, thanks!
Wow, nice favorite dylan lol! Thanks and good luck to bills tmr so we might see you soon in the playoffs.. From Baltimore!
Love the Josh Allen jersey, and your videos!
One of my favorite songs, congrats on your Bill's. I was hoping my Seahawks would get a rematch in the Super Bowl 😥
Great playing. And wonderful commentary about the non-binary tense changes. Always ahead of his time. Simple Twist of Fate is another amazing lyric from that (best) era. It’s circular. Unstuck in time. You can begin with any verse and it still makes perfect sense...
James keep singing sounds great!
Great lesson and highlighting such a brilliant version of a brilliant song. I remember seeing that footage shown in the mid-late 70s on L.A. TV when I was a kid and being mesmerized. It was one of the first things I taught myself on guitar. Looking back, the themes and adult relationships were probably formative, too. When I looked at it today, though, it was the first time I wondered whether that was actually white makeup or somebody sneezed over the mirror?
Thank you!!! RTR my favorite version as well!!
We can learn a lot about songwriting from Dylan. Congrats, saw the Bills won. I was an Oiler fan when they made that monumental comeback. Still hurts.
Thank you JJ for the lesson...
Thanks for the lesson man! Cool insight on the lyrics too
You have a good voice for this song.
1:50. My biggest faillure as a guitarist. I always want to slap a barre on top of my chords.
Learned it in D..Rolling Thunder is a great live album. But so is Blood on the Tracks..
our jj is a great singer!
Your becoming a better singer over the years. I think it just happens.
Your comment about changing the pronouns to render different meaning just blew my mind!
Bob has always been ahead of his time 😉
i think its quite apt for these times
Thank you …. Love ur vids… and private tricker also
It’s so nice to hear you Sing and discuss pronouns ... so nice!.... thank you JJ.... - Ken in Hawaii. 1/2021
Thanks for the lesson, any tips or methods for memorizing lyrics?
Yes, that live version you see on TH-cam is fantastic!
Thanks dude. Great lesson, as usual.
Bob Dylan is an incredible artist and a lyrical genius!
Great work as normal. What’s your thoughts on the New York acoustic recording? In open E?
"Hey All" where is James James from? and where does he get all those cool tee shirts from? Anyway, great work as usual mystery man.
Thanks for this one!
I thought you would bust out another Zeppelin tune today being it's Jimmy Page's birthday!
🐉💀👽🎸🎶🎵🧠
Thank you, you have a wonderful tone.
Did Dylan ever recieved a Kennedy center award?
Go Bills, the only real New York football team.
Can’t beat his rolling thunder revue recordings
Have you seen the rolling thunder film James. It’s out on blu ray this month. Well worth seeing
It’s fantastic. I love the Coyote scene at Gordon Lightfoot’s house.
Always liked the Real Live version of this song, lyrically
Hello, did you get rid of your some of your accoustic guitars yet?? Love your old licks video. Enjoy all of it. Thanks.
No, no plans to get rid of an acoustic.
It's a brilliant story. I prefer the slower tempo of the studio version, but this one has it's charm. Bet dropping down a whole step made it easier to sing though...
perfect...
I have quite some trouble playing that f chord like that, at least when i try to play the low f with the thumb. Any tips on that, maybe how to hold my fretting hand? Though I think its mostly because of the wide fretboard and big neck on my acoustic.
The entire palm of your hand should be touching the back of the neck. Grab it like a stick.
@@jamesjames9275 thanks mate! Feels kinda impossible, 2nd fret works but the first one is hard. but i'll keep trying
Greatest story song ever written but I prefer the original, probably because BOTT got me through a trying time in my life
Well, being a Saskatchewan Roughriders fan, I don't have any skin in the game, but if the Bills lose, will you do Streets of Baltimore? Which brings up another point: are there any songs at all about Indianapolis?
Awesome
Great job man, thank you, this is fun fun song to play over and over. What pick do you use for this kind of strumming?
I used a thin one for this, which I rarely do.
When you add some vocals or humming it really helps us know what part of the song your in. Thanks
That must be the Buffalo Blue, but if they lose, then, my friend, you might really be in the Blues!!!! Maybe some new verses? I was wandering onto a football field in January, hoping for victory. But Baltimore was in the way, hoping for the Super Bowl, on that January day, Tangled up in Blue. Buffalo, in the old rust belt, trying to be reborn, cold and snow and summer dreams, will I ever know another way as I wander up the highway. Rochester, Niagara Falls, Owesgo and the Great Lakes, tangled up in blues. Football was a game I played, in my younger days, but I grew older, just to play guitar, but she never escaped my mind, tangled up in blues ! I married a beautiful wife, she let me buy guitars. Now you watch my videos, making me a star. Just call me James James, known by another name. Some knew me as Privet-tricker, but that was another time. Tangled up in Blue. Now I got a dog and so many guitars. Many fans know me well, but I don’t care about fame. I got a wonderful wife, dog and 20 guitars. Call me happy, call me content, my journey has been good, just know me as I play guitar. Tangled up in Blue.
This is the First song I ever learned on the guitar
Thank you!
But harp key did he use in that key
I know nothing about harmonicas, sorry.
Some are mathematicians
Some are carpenter's wives
This is awesome 👍. Thank you I always did this in A. Also try the open E (or open D or open Eflat) version as shown on dylanchords.info.
I love making the lyrics kid friendly:
She was working in an ice cream place.
I stopped in for a cone.
She kept looking at the side of my face.
I said hey babe can I use your phone.
( This is equivalent to singing 'kool aid' when covering that Eric clapton song...).
My kids are in for a surprise when hear these songs in the wild. So freaking special... Etc
Thanks for the dylanchords link. Its amazing.
That Eric Clapton song was written by J J Cale, but Eric did do it justice.
JJ I noticed you switched to the Gibson Dove for this song and used your Martin for Sugar Mountain. Do you choose an acoustic based on a certain tone you are looking for on a specific song or did you just change to play another guitar? Another great lesson, thanks for upload. Cheers!
Well, it seemed appropriate to play a Neil Young song on a Martin so I switched.
Thanks!
Nice 1. Thanks
this guy is great. go bills
This guy is great! Go Lions.....errrrrr....NVM!
Best version for me is on real live. Like you said he changes the pronouns around it is genius. To be honest The best visions are real live or rolling thunder it is a toss-up between them too.
Where are you? X
I’m right here.
@@jamesjames9275 that’s good. Just love your vids and you not be around is rather sad. Just checking your well.
Dude how much have you spent on guitars? Seems like you always have very nice (and expensive) guitars 🎸👍🏽
Maybe you should watch my “How Much Did I Pay?” video.
Some people have pension plans, others have guitar collections.
Small aside before the meat of the comment: Did you monetize? I got a short ad, for once. No problems with that, just wondering.
I was taught this as G with a sus4 hammer-on the C on the b string. Or G11, whatever. I like your take better. I just can’t do that thumb over thing with F, even though my hands are larger than many.
Also, my read is: G to F to C would indicate that that part is in C and the progression is V chord, IV chord, I chord. It then modulates to G with the D and E minor to C. i.e. I to V to vi to IV.
That’s not how Bob did it, but that doesn’t matter. Bob changed the arrangements around all the time, so it’s OK if we do the same.
TH-cam has been putting ads on my videos from day one. I have no control over that.
Bob Dylan is one of those songwriters who make you realize why it's called Music Theory and not Music Law. Physics has Laws, music has Theory, and to quote Scotty from Star Trek 'Ya cannae change the laws of physics captain', but it's o.k. to wander off the straight and narrow of theories, especially music. If it sounds good don't lose sleep trying to work out why it does even though you can't explain it in line with music theory. In the key of G the F Major could be a sub-dominant shift of the C Major which turns up eventually, but it might just be that way because Bob Dylan liked it that way.
Although I prefer it and play in in "A".
I play exactly this version with a capo on 2. I find it easier with the G-shape as the root chord, it’s like J.J. says, you don’t have to move your hand very much. Also the capo puts it in A, which is they key of the original recording.
Go Bills!
Thanks for the lesson but beware of my dolphins they look like they are coming out of their 20 year slump lol
Bills had a tough win Saturday
I didn’t expect the playoffs to be blowouts, but that was too close for my comfort. Need a run game this weekend.
@@jamesjames9275 Yes, AFC seems a lot tougher than NFC
The Bills did it. 25 years..
My heart can’t take another one like that.
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I think you mean Tangled Up In Blue by Jerry Garcia Band
I'm actually not very fond of his version.
Bills on their Drive for Five, eh?