Bob Dylan – Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands (11:19)
On The Collection, Vol. 3: Blonde on Blonde/Blood on the Tracks/Infidels
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“Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” is the last song on the Bob Dylan album Blonde on Blonde, which was released in 1966.
It is written as a list song that comes back to a chorus line at the end of each stanza. The song is filled almost entirely with poetic symbols, such as in the first line “with your mercury mouth / in the missionary times”.
For his Dylan biography, Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades, Take Two (2000), Clinton Heylin interviewed Blonde on Blonde drummer, Kenny Buttrey. Buttrey gave this account of the recording of the song: “He ran down a verse and a chorus and he just quit and said, ‘We’ll do a verse and then a chorus and then I’ll play my harmonica thing. Then we’ll do another verse and chorus and we’ll play some more harmonica and see how it goes from there.’…Not knowing how long this thing was going to be, we were preparing ourselves dramatically for a basic two to three minute record, because records just didn’t go over three minutes… If you notice that record, that thing after like the second chorus starts building and building like crazy, and everybody’s just peaking it up ‘cause we thought, man this is it. This is going to be the last chorus and we’ve got to put everything into it we can… After about ten minutes of this thing we’re cracking up at each other, at what we were doing. I mean, we peaked five minutes ago. Where do we go from here?”
It is written as a list song that comes back to a chorus line at the end of each stanza. The song is filled almost entirely with poetic symbols, such as in the first line “with your mercury mouth / in the missionary times”.
For his Dylan biography, Bob Dylan: Behind The Shades, Take Two (2000), Clinton Heylin interviewed Blonde on Blonde drummer, Kenny Buttrey. Buttrey gave this account of the recording of the song: “He ran down a verse and a chorus and he just quit and said, ‘We’ll do a verse and then a chorus and then I’ll play my harmonica thing. Then we’ll do another verse and chorus and we’ll play some more harmonica and see how it goes from there.’…Not knowing how long this thing was going to be, we were preparing ourselves dramatically for a basic two to three minute record, because records just didn’t go over three minutes… If you notice that record, that thing after like the second chorus starts building and building like crazy, and everybody’s just peaking it up ‘cause we thought, man this is it. This is going to be the last chorus and we’ve got to put everything into it we can… After about ten minutes of this thing we’re cracking up at each other, at what we were doing. I mean, we peaked five minutes ago. Where do we go from here?”
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Shauni51 wrote:
★★★★★
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pablo323 wrote:
★★★★★
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TheFatChocobo wrote:
Favorite on Blonde on Blonde, and as you all know there sure is some fine competition there...
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JellyBean1994 wrote:
Fantastic song, definitely one of my favourites from Dylan. Really lovely.
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Austin_Rac wrote:
I can't believe how beautiful it is. So poignant. So touching. Outstanding. It really takes some time to get into this, but once you do, you really love that.
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scream1008 wrote:
my warehouse has my Arabian drum!
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Peeeons wrote:
I seriously cannot stop listening to this song,
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Nakkinak wrote:
★★★★★
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mgpixlab wrote:
★★★★★
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arsenalwa wrote:
I really feel like crying when the harmonica kicks on at the end. Incredibly beautiful.
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CidaDuarteF wrote:
Me encanta!!!!
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crazedbard wrote:
The greatest love song ever written, hands down.
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SucioVagabundo wrote:
Beauty
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Peeeons wrote:
pure poetry.
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Smallreceiver wrote:
So much beauty going on...
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CidaDuarteF wrote:
♥
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janis-joplin1 wrote:
Magnífica(2)
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vainillasalada wrote:
Magnífica
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JeffMec wrote:
Magic............ just magic!
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ralfsu wrote:
I should note that a strong part of the words of this song do have a certain significance, such as the "your magazine husband" line, because I believe Sara Lownds was married to a magazine editor or something along those lines.
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