This song was written about the actor/writer/playwright Sam Shepard during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Sam Shepard wrote The Rolling Thunder Logbook, which is an account of the tour.
The "woman at home" in this song is Patti Smith, who declined the invitation to join the musicians on the Rolling Thunder Revue.
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