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1966 song by Bob Dylan

"Absolutely Sweet Marie" is a song by American singer songwriter Bob Dylan, which was released on the third side of the double album and Dylan's seventh studio album, Blonde on Blonde (1966). The song was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. It was recorded at around 1:00 am on March 8, 1966, at Columbia Studio A, Nashville. Some commentators have interpreted the song as being about sexual frustration. The song has received critical acclaim; Rolling Stone placed the track 78th in their 2015 ranking of the 100 greatest Dylan songs. Dylan first performed "Absolutely Sweet Marie" live in concert on the first night of his Never Ending Tour, in Concord, California, on June 7, 1988. In all, he has played the song in concert 181 times, most recently in 2012. It was later included on The Original Mono Recordings (2010) and alternate versions appeared on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 (2015). George Harrison performed the song for The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration (1993).

Bob Dylan's sixth studio album Highway 61 Revisited was released in August 1965. Bob Johnston had produced all but the first two of the six recording sessions, and was again the producer when recording started for Dylan's next album on October 5, 1965, at Columbia Studio A, New York City. Further sessions in New York took place on November 30, and January 21, 25 and 27, 1966. Johnston suggested a change of location to Nashville, after the January sessions were unproductive. Robbie Robertson and Al Kooper, who had both played at earlier sessions, were joined by experienced Nashville session musicians, including Joe South, Charlie McCoy, Wayne Moss, and Kenneth Buttrey, for sessions at Columbia Studio A, initially on February 14, 1966. and "Absolutely Sweet Marie" appeared as the third of five tracks on the third side. The first complete take was released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 in 2015.

"Absolutely Sweet Marie" was written by Dylan in the studio. The handwritten lyrics from the session largely reflect the recorded versions, apart from several changes in the first verse. The original lyrics omit the "railroad gate" that is in the first line of the released version, and although the studio log shows the song listed as "Where Are You Tonight, Sweet Marie? ", the line does not appear in the written lyrics or the first take. The song's bridge, which refers to a "riverboat captain" who knows the narrator's fate, is also not in the original lyrics, although there is a note that "they all know my fate". This possible allusion is also noted by Trager.

The Sun Herald reviewer gave a negative view of what they referred to as "pop songs" on Blonde on Blonde, mentioning "Absolutely Sweet Marie" and other tracks, dismissing them with the comment that "the fancy words are inclined to hide the fact that there is nothing there at all". Dylan biographer Robert Shelton found the track "catchy and bright, sparked off by a great organ proclamation The band's ensemble sound is tight, over insistent drumming." Michael Gray wrote that "the words are borne along on a sea of rich red music, bobbing with a stylish and highly distinctive rhythm". Gray praised Dylan's vocal performance as amongst his best, and regards the delivery of the line which concludes each verse as having "as much alert variety in delivery as would be humanly yet still felicitously possible". Trager wrote that the track is "an elixir to those who found Dylan's mid '60s songs a bit dour an exuberant, pure Beale Street, up tempo skip complete with a slew of memorable lines that could be anyone's koan". A reviewer for the Runcorn Weekly News described "Absolutely Sweet Marie" as a "real gem". Curtis praised how "discipline and verbal mastery to create such stable structures for his startling imagery. The tensions between his surrealistic, unpredictable images and his traditional, predictable stanzaic forms the extraordinary effects to which we responded so intensely." Rolling Stone placed the track 78th in their 2015 ranking of the 100 greatest Dylan songs, calling it "a cryptic love letter that rides a bubblegum electric keyboard and sparkling blues rock guitar". Author John Nogowski highlighted the mid song "wild harmonica solo", and rated the song "A". In 1991, Dylan said of the song: "It's matured well It's like old wine." The song was included on The Original Mono Recordings (2010) and alternate versions appeared on The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965–1966 (2015).