Sad Eyed Lady of The Lowlands - Live Performances, Cover Versions, and Legacy

Live Performances, Cover Versions, and Legacy

Dylan has never performed this song in concert. However, during the "Woman In White" sequence of Dylan's film Renaldo And Clara, a live performance of the song can be heard in the background. Accompanied by Scarlet Rivera on violin, Rob Stoner on bass, and Howie Wyeth on drums, Heylin writes that Dylan recorded this version at a rehearsal during The Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975.

Joan Baez covered this song on her 1968 album of Dylan songs Any Day Now. Steve Howe also covered this song on his 1999 album "Portraits of Bob Dylan" with fellow Yes member Jon Anderson on lead vocals. Richie Havens has covered this song on his 1974 album Mixed Bag II.

Alternative French band Phoenix recorded a live five-minute acoustic cover for the German magazine Musikexpress via The Tripwire in January 2010.

Irish comedian Dylan Moran in a live show while impersonating a folk singer says "this one's called cross-eyed mary of the lowlands".

In his autobiography, I Me Mine, published in 1980, George Harrison says that the chord changes of "Sad Eyed Lady" influenced the music of Harrison's song Long, Long, Long, which he wrote and recorded in October 1968 for the album The Beatles, sometimes known as The White Album. Harrison wrote: "I can't recall much about it except the chords, which I think were coming from "Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" - D to E minor, A, and D - those three chords and the way they moved."

Tom Waits said of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" in 1991: "It is like Beowulf and it 'takes me out to the meadow'. This song can make you leave home, work on the railroad or marry a Gypsy. I think of a drifter around a fire with a tin cup under a bridge remembering a woman's hair. The song is a dream, a riddle and a prayer."

In a radio interview with Howard Stern on January 18, 2012, former Pink Floyd bassist, and principal composer of the band's songs Roger Waters revealed: "'Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands' sort of changed my life. When I heard that, I thought, if Bob can do, I can do it... it's a whole album. And it in no way gets dull or boring. You just get more and more engrossed. It becomes more and more hypnotic, the longer it goes on."