Covers and References
The song has been covered by various artists, including Great White, Jerry Garcia, Dickey Betts and Great Southern, Mike McClure, Half Japanese, Robyn Hitchcock, the Indigo Girls, Kim Larsen, K.T. Tunstall, Ani Difranco, The String Cheese Incident, Jennifer Charles and The Whitlams on their Eternal Nightcap album of 1997.
In the Hootie & the Blowfish song "Only Wanna Be with You", Darius Rucker sings that he is "tangled up in blue". "Yeah I'm tangled up in blue / Only wanna be with you / You can call me your fool / Only wanna be with you " The reference extends a string of mentions of Bob Dylan in the song, beginning at the start of the second verse: "Putting on a little Dylan ...". The song's rhythm itself seems to be inspired by Dylan's original track.
The alternative rock band, Queens of the Stone Age, make a play on "Tangled Up in Blue" with their song, "Tangled up in Plaid", from their album Lullabies to Paralyze. Aside from the similarity of its title, the Queens of the Stone Age song has no real relation to "Tangled Up in Blue".
The band Cameo described the song as 'definitive' in their musical development and frequently opened concerts with a funk version of the song. Barb Jungr and Louis Durra have recorded jazz versions.
The Belgian TV-host Bart Peeters, who is also a singer-songwriter, made a Dutch version of the song. The lyrics are modified by him, and as a result he tells a more personal story about how he met his wife. The Dutch title is "Prachtig in het blauw". ( beautiful in blue)
Texas Country artist Hayes Carll includes the lyics " You was openly frustrated / you said Dylan's overrated / while singing Tangled Up In Blue " in his 2011 song "Another Like You".
The song is a playable track on Rock Band 2, as the most difficult song in the vocal section, and the final song for the player to complete in the "Impossible Vocal Challenge".
Science fiction author Joan D. Vinge published Tangled Up in Blue in 2000 as the fourth book in her Hugo Award winning "Snow Queen" trilogy.
A female artist named Sami quotes the lines, "We'll meet again someday on the avenue/tangled up in blue" in Michael Corrigan's book, These Precious Hours.
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