Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands composer Bob Dylan
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" is a song by American singer-singwriter Bob Dylan. First released as the final track on Dylan's 1966 album Blonde on Blonde, the song lasts 11 minutes and 23 seconds, and occupies the entire fourth side of the double album. The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. Dylan has revealed that the song was written about his wife, Sara Lownds.
"Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" has polarised music critics and songwriters. Musicologist Wilfrid Mellers wrote that "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" stands with "Mr. Tambourine Man" as "perhaps the most insidiously haunting pop song of our time". Pink Floyd songwriter Roger Waters said: "'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" sort of changed my life." By contrast, Dylan critic Michael Gray has described the song as "unsuccessful, and rather grandly so, inasmuch as it is offered as... something of extra-special importance and doesn't live up to its billing." However, Gray later recanted and called the song "a masterpiece if ever there was one".
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