This is it. The happy couple on the cover of The Freewheelin' are getting divorced.There are several deliciously skewed accounts of this on 1975's Blood. The most obvious is of course the coarse [sorry] semi-title track Idiot Wind, but Tangled Up In Blue (the best song on here), You're a Big Girl Now, and If You See Her (Say Hello) provide references, and perhaps the anti-epic nine-minute Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts is some kind of symbolistic reference. The double-edged, witty lyrics are one of the real treats here, but the layers and layers of guitars on songs like You're a Big Girl Now and Tangled Up In Blue give them the melancholy, bitterswwet, beautiful sound he was aiming for. And then you have the fun songs, the aforementioned Lily and Idiot Wind, with his best lyrics since at least the 1965-1966 era (Highway and Blonde), the former being reminiscient of the delicious Desolation Row. I like to think it happens on that legenday street. So does Stuck inside of Memphis, Tombstone Blues, and all the rest of his amazingly surreal story songs. This is one of my favorite albums ever... I almost put it at first. But at least now we know what comes next... -Ian, 5.5/5 (lol) Really 5/5
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