Rowling and Dylan win book awards
JK Rowling was honoured for her latest Harry Potter instalment
JK Rowling has shared honours with singer Bob Dylan at a book awards ceremony in the US.
The author scooped book of the year and best children's book for her latest novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince at the first Quill Book Awards.
Dylan won best biography or memoir for Chronicles: Volume One, his personal history as a musician.
Neither were in New York to collect the gongs. The public voted for them from a list compiled by 6,000 book experts.
When The Ship Comes In
Bob Dylan
Oh the time will come up
When the winds will stop
And the breeze will cease to be breathin'.
Like the stillness in the wind
'Fore the hurricane begins,
The hour when the ship comes in.
Oh the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking.
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.
Oh the fishes will laugh
As they swim out of the path
And the seagulls they'll be smiling.
And the rocks on the sand
Will proudly stand,
The hour that the ship comes in.
And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they're spoken.
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.
A song will lift
As the mainsail shifts
And the boat drifts on to the shoreline.
And the sun will respect
Every face on the deck,
The hour that the ship comes in.
Then the sands will roll
Out a carpet of gold
For your weary toes to be a-touchin'.
And the ship's wise men
Will remind you once again
That the whole wide world is watchin'.
Oh the foes will rise
With the sleep still in their eyes
And they'll jerk from their beds and think they're dreamin'.
But they'll pinch themselves and squeal
And know that it's for real,
The hour when the ship comes in.
Then they'll raise their hands,
Sayin' we'll meet all your demands,
But we'll shout from the bow your days are numbered.
And like Pharaoh's tribe,
They'll be drownded in the tide,
And like Goliath, they'll be conquered.
© 1963 1964 Warner Bros. Inc. Renewed 1991 Special Rider Music
Coming across this thread again reminded me that I went to my first Dylan concert on Halloween night, 1991. There was a miserable ice storm and my car was not the most reliable (or steady on the road), but Dylan played to a packed house, opening with "New Morning" and ending with a rollicking version of one of my favorites, "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight". Truly a memorable evening!!
Of all the Dylan concerts I attended, my favorite was at Long Beach, CA, in 1964, also my first. He still had Bloomfield, Kooper and the band off of Highway 61 Revisited. Barry McGuire was in the audience not that far away. He went backstage during the break. It opened with acoustic, but returned and did the songs from Hwy 61Revisited. I would give anything to relive that one.
edgarblythe wrote:Of all the Dylan concerts I attended, my favorite was at Long Beach, CA, in 1964, also my first. He still had Bloomfield, Kooper and the band off of Highway 61 Revisited. Barry McGuire was in the audience not that far away. He went backstage during the break. It opened with acoustic, but returned and did the songs from Hwy 61Revisited. I would give anything to relive that one.
I am extremely jealous.
Were people booing his second half in the States?
Not at this point. They were fawning and politely clapping for everything he did. All except for one point in the acoustic part, where during a slow song he hung on the harmonica by his teeth, seemingly, blowing a few laconic rounds, taking so long that one impatient fan shouted, "Go, Bobby!"
I saw Bob in 1996. Great show. Loved his band and his new arrangment of Tangled Up in Blue.
The highlight of the night had to be Rainy Day Women, when several woman rushed the stage and started dancing. And Bob sallied right up beside them and started dancing along with them while he kept playing.
Great thread EdgarB!
Seen Dylan half a dozen times by now - he's a frequent visitor to the Emerald Isle. Still manages to fill the stadiums over here.
One of my favourites is Seven Curses. I get similar feelings of rage when I listen to The Lonesome death of Hattie Carroll.
Old Reilly stole a stallion
But they caught him and they brought him back
And they laid him down in the jailhouse ground
With an iron chain around around his neck
When Reilly's daughter got a message
that her father was goin' to hang
She rode by night and came by mornin'
With gold and silver in her hands
When the judge saw Reilly's daughter
His old eyes deepened in his head
Sayin' "gold will never free your father
The price my dear is you instead"
Oh, i'm as good as dead" cried Reilly
"For it's only you that he does crave
And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all
Get on your horse and ride away"
"But father you will surely die
If I don't take the chance and try
And pay the price and not take your advice
For that reason I will have to stay"
The gallows shadows shook the evenin'
In the night a hound-dog bayed
In the night the ground was groanin'
In the night the price was paid
The next morn when she had awoken
To find the judge had never spoken
She saw that hangin' branch a-bendin'
She saw her father's body broken
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel
That one doctor cannot save him
That two healers cannot heal him
And that three eyes cannot see him
That four ears cannot hear him
That five walls cannot hide him
That six diggers cannot bury him
And that seven deaths will never kill him.
How do I get hold of this?
Not sure. What's the name of it?
Is that the one with Mr Bojangles?
edgarblythe wrote:Is that the one with Mr Bojangles?
You got it in one Edgar. It's titled 'Dylan'
I have an original copy on vinyl. I will look around for another.
Although Dylan received very poor reviews, it managed to hit #17 in the US and become a gold record. It is the only non-compilation Dylan album not released on CD in the North American market, but was released on CD under its original title for the Japanese market and as A Fool Such as I in the UK/European market. The cassette edition, however, is still offered in the North American market
Now all you need to do is find a Japanese or UK music dealer that has it.
Thanks for the info Edgar I'll keep trying.
edgarblythe wrote:Although Dylan received very poor reviews, it managed to hit #17 in the US and become a gold record. It is the only non-compilation Dylan album not released on CD in the North American market, but was released on CD under its original title for the Japanese market and as A Fool Such as I in the UK/European market. The cassette edition, however, is still offered in the North American market
Now all you need to do is find a Japanese or UK music dealer that has it.
I believe this album was released by Columbia without Dylan's permission to fulfill his contract when he (briefly) jumped ship to Geffen records and somewhat shortly thereafter released his only official studio album with the Band, "Planet Waves" in 1973.
Yep, I remember, Allan. I have a copy of Planet Waves on Asylumn Records, too. I've played both albums too much for them to be valuable to collectors.
I didn't know before a search just now that Before the flood was also on Asylum records.
The Wandering Kind
She's like sweet water that runs down my face,
I keep her posted in diamonds and lace.
I give her freedom and what else I can find,
But I know she's restless in her mind
And the wandering kind.
Way down in Texas many years ago,
She traveled with me to ease my heavy load.
Some big shot saw her 'cause she looked so fine,
How was he to know she was restless in her mind
And the wandering kind.
A strange bedfellow wandered in her room
She was more unfaithful than I ever could assume
She took his money and slayed him from behind
'Cause she knew she was restless in her mind
She's the wander kind.
Down at the border with new plans of my own
Don't need no woman I'll go it alone
I miss my baby and I can't keep from cryin'
'Cause I know she's restless in her mind
And the wandering kind.
I should have known better than to get mixed up with her
I guess I'll never know for sure
For better or worse the situation now is reversed
And I'm broke 'cause she is no longer first in my heart.
I wrote this letter before leaving the hotel
To where she's staying in that dark adobe cell
I tried to help her but she knows I'm not blind
And because I'm not restless in my mind
I'm the wandering kind.
Copyright © 1986 Special Rider Music
