Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan (1962 US)

No he podido menos que asombrarme cuando me he enterado que el Premio Nobel de Literatura 2016 era... Bob Dylan!!! Parece que no casa mucho esto de literatura y rock, pero es cierto que Dylan abrió la mente a las letras del rock, que cambiaron desde que empezó a hacer poesía. Y vamos a remontarnos al inicio de todo, precisamente a uno de los LPs que menos "puntos" le habrán dado para conseguir este gran premio. Y digo esto porque el álbum de debut del Sr. Zimmerman únicamente tiene dos canciones compuestas por él: "Talkin' New York" y "Song To Woody".

TALKIN' NEW YORK

Rambling out of the wild west

Leaving the towns I love best

Thought I'd seen some ups and down 

'Till I come into New York town

People going down to the ground

Building going up to the sky.

Wintertime in New York town

The wind blowing snow around

Walk around with nowhere to go 

Somebody could freeze right to the bone

I froze right to the bone 

New York Times said it was the coldest winter in seventeen years 

I didn't feel so cold then.

I swung on to my old guitar 

Grabbed hold of a subway car

And after a rocking, reeling, rolling ride

I landed up on the downtown side: 

Greenwich Village.

I walked down there and ended up 

In one of them coffee-houses on the block

Got on the stage to sing and play 

Man there said, Come back some other day

You sound like a hillbilly 

We want folksingers here.

Well, I got a harmonica job begun to play 

Blowing my lungs out for a dollar a day

I blowed inside out and upside down 

The man there said he loved my sound

He was raving about he loved my sound 

Dollar a day's worth.

After weeks and weeks of hanging around 

I finally got a job in New York town

In a bigger place, bigger money too 

Even joined the Union and paid my dues.

Now, a very great man once said 

That some people rob you with a fountain pen

It don't take too long to find out 

Just what he was talking about

A lot of people don't have much food on their table

But they got a lot of forks and knives 

And they gotta cut something.

So one morning when the sun was warm 

I rambled out of New York town

Pulled my cap down over my eyes 

And heated out for the western skies

So long New York 

Howdy, East Orange.

El 11 de abril de 1961 Bob Dylan hizo su debut en la Ciudad de New York City, en un "Opening Act" para un concierto de John Lee Hooker en el Gerde's Folk City. Tocó cinco canciones, dos de las cuales eran composición propia: "Song to Woody" y "Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues". Un mes y pocos días después, el 24 de mayo, cumplía 20 años. Os dejo un directo de "Song To Woody", de un concierto del Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ, el 13 de noviembre de 1999.

SONG TO WOODY

I'm out here a thousand miles from my home

Walking a road other men have gone down

I'm seeing a new world of people and things

Hear paupers and peasants and princes and kings.

Hey hey Woody Guthrie I wrote you a song

About a funny old world that's coming along

Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn

It looks like it's dying and it's hardly been born.

Hey Woody Guthrie but I know that you know

All the things that I'm saying and a many times more

I'm singing you the song but I can't you sing enough

'Cause there's not many men that've done the things that you've done.

Here's to Cisco and Sonny and Leadbelly too

And to all the good people that travelled with you

Here's to the hearts and the hands of the men

That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.

I'm leaving tomorrow but I could leave today

Somewhere down the road someday

The very last thing that I'd want to do

Is to say I've been hitting some hard travelling too.

Disponible en Nuestra Fábrica:

1967 - John Wesley Harding

1978 - At Budokan

1979 - Slow Train Coming

1993 - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration

1994 - Outside The Empire (bootleg)

1996 - Neil Young & Bob Dylan: San Franciscan Nights 1975 (bootleg)

1999 - Singing With The Crow. Duets (bootleg)

2001 - Live 1961-2000. Thirty-nine Years Of Great Concert Performances

2001 - Van Morrison & Bob Dylan: Duets (bootleg)

2014 - UK Canta A Dylan

Y disponible en 1PocodMusica:

1965 - Highway 61 Revisited

1966 - Blonde On Blonde

1973 - Dylan

1975 - Blood On The Tracks

1978 - Masterpieces

1997 - Never Mind The Bollocks (Here's Bob Dylan) (bootleg)

2001 - Love And Theft

2006 - Modern Times

2009 - Together Through Life

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