Too Much of Nothing

[3] Greil Marcus asserts that this was one of the songs recorded at the end of "the basement summer" in August or September 1967.

Dylan’s voice is high and constantly bending, carried forward not by rhythm or by melody but by the discovery of the true terrain of the songs as they’re sung.

[1] According to Billboard, this version's "clever driving blues arrangement compliments the trio to the fullest.

The trio's Paul Stookey speculated that this mistake may have caused Dylan to consequently become disenchanted with the group: "We just became other hacks that were doing his tunes.

[9][a 1] Lachlan MacKinnon [10] writes that the lines do refer to Eliot's wives and are "remarkably shrewd", suggesting the poet's "strange combination of self-distancing and financial propriety".