The song may be about a former girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, or fellow folk singer Joan Baez, contemporary siren Nico, or Sara Lownds, the woman that Dylan would wed in November 1965.
The version of the song that appears on Bringing It All Back Home was recorded on the afternoon of January 14, 1965, and produced by Tom Wilson.
[2] Dylan performed it with the rock band that accompanied him on the songs on side one of the album, with Bruce Langhorne playing the electric guitar.
[3][7][8][9] The woman described in the song perhaps belongs to no one, as suggested by the lyric "She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.
[citation needed] In its contemporary review of the single release, Cash Box described it as a "feelingful blue shuffler.
It was also included in Martin Scorsese's film No Direction Home and released on its soundtrack album, The Bootleg Series Vol.
The song has been covered by various artists, including Barry McGuire, The Grateful Dead (from the 1985 Tour featured on Dick's Picks Volume 21), The Flying Burrito Brothers, Tom Tom Club, Alain Bashung, Leon Russell, The Nice, Richard Shindell, Billy Preston, Buddy Greene, Lloyd Cole, Ricky Nelson, Neil Finn and Pajama Club, Buffalo Tom, Ane Brun, Ólöf Arnalds, Trish Murphy, The Masterminds, Augie Meyers, The Rose Garden and Tina Turner.
[7] Though it was never included on an album (barring the free downloads of a recording of a concert at Bilston's (near Wolverhampton, UK) Robin 2 Music Hall in November 2016 on Harley's website), Steve Harley included the song in his 9-show November 2016 3-man acoustic tour, as well as the 11 full rock band shows in 2017, as a mark of respect to Dylan.
In addition, Dylan's track "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" was included in Harley's 1996 album Poetic Justice, and was occasionally played live.