Originally posted by Mobius:
Tangled Up in Blue
Tangled up in Blue is my favorite too. Here's why....
I have an older brother...He was quite a bit older than me and when I was 6 or 7 he was your typical mid-late 70's teenage misfit.....Long hair, smokin tons of weed and dust, riding a skateboard. Anyway, he played guitar and between that and the long hair I thought he was a freaking rock star. I idolized him. But he was a pretty messed up kid.
He pretty much left home when he was 15 or so and was in tons of foster homes, reform schools and institutions. When he was 20 or so he lived in Shepardstown WVa. and I went out there one day to visit him.
We walked from his place down to this scenic overlook high above the Shennandoah river. He had his acoustic guitar with him and we sat up there and he played Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan. I'd never heard the song before but I was 12 or 13 and thought it was the greatest thing ever written.
A few months later my brother passed away and that is maybe the last great memory I have of him......
Just kidding...that last part of the story about my brother dying is a lie. I couldn't resist. He's actually living in Austin and doing quite well. The rest of the story is true...and I still love that song cuz of that day in WVa.
