[2] The song was one of a few Dylan attempted to record with a full band (Eric Weissberg and Deliverance) at the album's initial September 1974 sessions in New York.
The complete recording session of "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" was released in 2018 on the deluxe edition of The Bootleg Series Vol.
[3] The Daily Telegraph described the song as "Dylan's most fully realised masterpiece, crammed with lyrical blood and thunder and piercing observations".
I can almost smell the trees and different people I've known over the years, the flowers, the sunlight – the way things look when you're falling in love and how that turns in on itself when you have to leave or move on or life changes you or changes the other person.
[5] In spite of the fact that Dylan has not performed the song live since 1976, he did revisit it and drastically alter the lyrics for his "Mondo Scripto" art exhibition at the Halcyon Gallery in London in 2017.
According to Tom Piazza's notes in the exhibition catalogue: "In their original recorded incarnation, the lyrics to this song are luminous with the sensuality of new love, intoxicated with its immediacy and worried that it won't last.