(Boston) Jim wrote: >Roger's "Cardiff Rose" LP was a direct outgrowth of that traveling minstrel >show, and it's one of my favorites of his solo albums. He included a brand >new Dylan song on it, too - "Up To Me" - which was about to become "Tangled >Up In Blue" on Dylan's "Blood On The Tracks." Dylan's own version of "Up To >Me" (an early outtake from BOTT) can be heard on the "Biograph" box set.
Jim, did I read you right? Is McGuinn's version of "Up to Me" truly an early draft of "Tangled Up in Blue"? Because the final versions of either song are poles apart, and the extant earlier (and even later) versions of "Tangled Up in Blue" betray no connection to "Up to Me". Please clarify. Gil