Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands
May 16, 1966
Sad - Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is it with the Bob Dylan in 1966 his seventh studio album Blonde on Blonde finished on eleven -minute epic poem.
Formation
Dylan was frustrated at the slow Vorrankommen when working on Blonde on Blonde, and adopted the proposal of his producer Bob Johnston to move production from New York City to Nashville. This caused guitarist Robbie Robertson and organ player Al Kooper were involved in the shooting.
Work on Sad - Eyed Lady of the Lowlands began shortly after Dylan's marriage to Sara Lowndes. On February 15, 1966, the session did not start until 18 clock in the evening; Dylan was still working on the lyrics, while the musicians pass the time. Only four clock at night begin the actual recordings.
The band rehearsed the piece, while Dylan still continues to work on the structure; Drummer Kenny Buttrey later remarked: "If you notice did 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 gonna be the load- chorus and we've gotta put everything into it we can. and he played another harmonica solo and went back down to another verse and the dynamics had to drop back down to a verse kind of feel ... 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? "
A total of four takes of the song were finally taken, which are not all but complete. So take is 2, for example, interrupted. The finished song turned out to be slower folk - rocker, with a maturity of more than eleven minutes. He would eventually occupy the entire fourth side of the double LP. Overall, Sad - Eyed Lady of the Lowlands of a now six songs by Dylan that have a maturity of more than ten minutes.
The Lyrics
The song consists of five stanzas, all of which consist ( with chorus ) of 13 verses.
According to the 1976 song appeared on the album Desire Sara Dylan wrote the song for his then new wife Sara Lownds. Even before the song of biographer, critics and fans had been described as a kind wedding song. The lyrics mostly lives in front of the attributes of the ominous Sad - Eyed Lady to describe, followed by a rhetorical question and the chorus. The lady herself is not addressed to the word in the song. Bottom line, the lyric I expresses great affection and love for the woman sung.
Even before Dylan's official assurances to have written the piece for his wife at the time Lownds, music journalists reported back to the abnormalities that were in favor. Lowndes Vita could easily bring with the lyrics in combination, such as the passage to the magazine husband, of which the lady divorced, indicating Lowndes first marriage.
Occupation
- Bob Dylan, vocals, harmonica
- Hargus " Pig" Robbins, piano
- Al Kooper, organ
- Charlie McCoy, guitar
- Wayne Moss, Guitar
- Joe South, Bass
- Kenny Buttrey, Drums
The song in Dylan's oeuvre
Sad - Eyed Lady of the Lowlands is considered by many music critics and fans as one of Dylan's best work. The Uncut lists the song at number 10 in its list of the best songs of Bob Dylan and the Mojo makes him even in their version of the list on the third rank.