"... Then, after the musicians were woken up just before four in the morning of the 16th, they recorded three takes of ‘Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands’, the first of which ended up on the album. Indeed, if ever there was an opportunity for them to familiarise themselves and get to grips with the main man’s improvisational approach, this was it. A soulful, 11-minute, 23-second ode to Dylan’s then-new wife, former Playboy Bunny Sarah Lowndes, ‘Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands’ was set apart from the rest of the often-witty yet acerbic Blonde On Blonde by occupying the double album’s entire fourth side. Diving headlong into surreal imagery, the track features its author at his poetic peak as, playing harmonica and acoustic guitar to the band’s traditional, loping 6/8 waltz arrangement, he nonchalantly sings about your childhood flames on your midnight rug, and your Spanish manners and your mother’s drugs, and your cowboy mouth and your curfew plugs...."
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