After the grammy award for best liner notes, pete hamill s liner notes were restored in white print. Feb 08, 2008 the first us and all uk pressings of the album had a rear sleeve with notes by famed new york journalist and author pete hamill surrounding a painting by david oppenheim. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Won a grammy in the best album notes category for bob dylans blood on the tracks 1975 the premise of his novel forever was inadvertently paralleled by the tv show new amsterdam 2008. Probably not even dylans best album, but blood on the tracks is without any question my favourite album ever made.
Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers all about blood on the tracks sound. Blood on the tracks sound recording by bob dylan librarything. Widely traveled and having written on a broad range of topics, he is perhaps best known for his career as a new york city journalist, as the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of new york citys politics and sports and the particular pathos of. Pete hamill is currently considered a single author. Full of songs about heartache, anger, and loneliness, the album has since been regarded as the standard for a confessional singersongwriter album. Through the years its been a wonderful story unto itself and now is a required companion piece to more blood, more tracks. Widely traveled and having written on a broad range of topics, he is perhaps best known for his career as a new york city journalist, as the author of columns that sought to capture the particular flavors of new york citys politics and sports and the particular pathos of its crime.
He had one in mint condition, both record and sleeve. The great pete hamill wrote the liner notes for blood on the tracks and big joe henry delivers them as we opened this years bobfest. He talked about and i agree how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life. I like every track on this record, all feel utterly flawless and yet so simple. Id never seen one, though, until i was going through a friends records recently.
Blood on the tracks was bob dylans fifteenth studio album and is considered to be one of his best albums of his career. Memoir of the great depression, world war ii, journalism career 1994. Journalist, novelist, essayist, critic, screenwriter and educator, hamill even has a grammy on his trophy shelf, for his liner notes to bob dylans blood on the tracks. Segueing from sports to music, i said, someday i hope to write something as good as the liner notes to blood on the tracks. Contemporary authors, new revision series dictionary. I walk down these streets every day and am familiar with every place he describes. If blood on the tracks was any less painful, it would be dishonest. From his days as a crack reporter who incredibly rose to the editorinchief post of both rival dailies the new york post and the new york daily news to his novels like the sweeping manhattan epic forever, pete hamill keeps his typing fingers on the pulse of the city he calls home. The first us and all uk pressings of the album had a rear sleeve with notes by famed new york journalist and author pete hamill surrounding a painting by david oppenheim. The liner notes, by american writer pete hamill, boldly claim that here is dylan bringing feeling back home as personal and as universal as yeats or blake, and for some of the tracks that. Hamills actual sleeve notes were based on his hearing the test pressing, bearing the matrix numbers 1a.
I first experienced pete hamills work a few years later in high school while reading the liner notes to my favorite album of all time, bob dylans blood on the tracks. Best of pete hamill score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Bob dylan asked hamill to write the liner notes for blood on the tracks, winning hamill a grammy. These days, he works mainly as a novelist, and most of his fiction is set in nyc. In this unique homage to an american icon, journalist and awardwinning author pete hamill evokes the essence of sinatraexamining his art and his legend from the inside, as only a friend of many years could do. The liner notes, by american writer pete hamill, boldly claim that here is dylan bringing feeling back home as personal and as universal as yeats. Cormac oconnor, a young 18th century irishman, through an accident in the street and a colision with a mystical destiny finds himself travelling to make a new life in america. The plot concerned the adventures of a police reporter and a hispanic detective, played by mitchell ryan and reni santoni, respectively.
Pete hamill essay from the original back cover of blood on the tracks in the end, the plague touched us all. Flesh and blood 1st edition1st printing hardcover 1977. Sep 18, 2016 as a native brooklynite, pete hamill figures he is entitled to disagree about the borough with his fellow novelist thomas wolfe, who lived there for less than a decade during the 1930s. Unfortunately these notes were based on and quoted lyrics from the original versions of the songs on the blood on the tracks test pressing, see 1974. Hamill, pete 1935 william peter hamill skip to main content. Pete hamill born june 24, 1935 is an american journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator.
In 1994, hamill published a drinking life, a memoir about his childhood and early years reporting, focusing on his embrace of drinking and eventual decision to abstain. More and more people were convinced his time had come and gone, until he released blood on the tracks in 1975. Colored cardstock inner sleeve, pc 33235 printed in white on lower left corner. Dylan commenced recording the album in new york city in september 1974. Pete hamill is a legend of new york, and forever feels very much like his magnum opus. Side 1 side 2 text differs from bob dylan blood on the tracks. Hes a former reporter and columnist whos written for the post, the daily news, the village voice, and newsday. Hbo documentary spotlights columnists jimmy breslin and. Hbo documentary spotlights columnists jimmy breslin and pete hamill top stories. He also wrote about boxing, baseball, art, and contemporary music, winning a grammy award in 1975 for the liner notes to bob dylans blood on the tracks. Hamill wrote about the new york underclass and racial division, most notably in an essay for esquire magazine entitled breaking the silence.
Challenges to the poll trade pfizer generic viagra global transportation made when although the with a good book the threat of this across different countries. According to this hypothesis to stand naked in a layer of rocks pick what classes to. Just about everything novels, short stories, history, biography, memoir, magazine features, newspaper columns, television pilots, adapted film scripts, bob dylan liner notes. Now this is not unheard of in dylandom, when the bard will never give us the same song twice. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. He won the 1975 annotators grammy for his efforts, which were removed from and then restored to the jacket, creating two different versions of blood on the tracks. It is both an unforgettable drama and a timeless triumph of storytelling. Albums like new morning and planet waves were fine works, but lacked the visionary spark of his seminal 60s recordings. Ive often heard about this first pressing that has the liner notes that were written about blood on the tracks before dylan went in an rerecorded a few songs. The characters stay within the narrow confines that hamill has laid for them like grids of the uptown streets he avoids. Pete hamills liner notes to bob dylans blood on the tracks, and orhan pamuks the new life, as well as reams of obscure poetry. The first, second and third sleeves all house discs with a 2 set of matrixes. It turned up again in america, breeding inacompost of greed and uselessness and murder, in those places where statesmen and generals stash the bodies of the forever young. Pete was close friends with frank sinatra and wrote the liner notes to bob dylans blood on the tracks, and jimmy wrote a famous book about watergate.
They are three uniquely different songs, which evoke different emotions upon listening. For my part, acquaintance with pete hamill s work was originally through his prescient liner notes to bob dylans blood on the tracks. Bob dylan blood on the tracks 1976, 3rd state sleeve. So interesting and well told also pete writes about nyc like no one else ive ever read. Kennedy asked hamill to quit journalism to help him run for president. Rear pete hamill sleeve notes from first sleeve which was printed in black type, which were removed on the second sleeve. Their words, their personalities and the impacts they had on their new york home base and far beyond are traced in breslin and hamill. His work has been published in rolling stones, esquire and the new yorker.
Bob dylan if you see her, say hello lyrics genius lyrics. The liner notes, by american writer pete hamill, boldly claim that here is dylan bringing feeling back home as personal and as universal as yeats or blake, and for some of the tracks. The torment of pete hamill s hero in flesh and blood is an erotic passion for his mother kate, a beautiful halfshoshone woman of 36 with a his fists hit like a mule kicking downhill. Pete hamill has 99 books on goodreads with 80006 ratings. It brings back a dylan moment just before something that pete hamill on the liner notes to blood on the tracks called the plague infected so many hopes, and destroyed an older america sung of by guthrie and, in prose, by jack kerouacand by dylan as well, who somehow survived. Pete hamill need not be asked for further comment, since his liner notes on the back cover were so lengthy they had to be reproduced in tiny print. Bob dylan blood on the tracks artwork question steve. Hamill, to the show and he was kind enough to respond with his regrets. Pete hamill, gruff and oldstyle newspaper columnist. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. But reading north river is like you would imagine a crosstown walk with hamill to be even though you know exactly where youre going, its still a fun trip. Pete hamill in 1962, i wrote a series about 42nd street.
When he throws a punch, a scream bellows his rage, for his world is an endless chain of enemies. Bobby fallon, a boy in a mans body, counters the violence and chaos of his rocketing boxing career in the refuge of his mothers brooklyn tenement, which is, however, haunted by the shadowy presence of his longabsent father. He also won a grammy award for his liner notes on bob dylans 1975 album blood on the tracks. In 1962, i wrote a series about 42nd street called welcome to lostville. Pete hamill was born in the park slope section of brooklyn, n. Hbo documentary spotlights columnists jimmy breslin and pete.
Very odd that similar series were made that were so obviously derived from this book forever and new amsterdam and i believe not totally sure the court ruled that they were not similar enough to the book to grant mr. Blood on the tracks is the fifteenth studio album by american singersongwriter bob dylan, released on january 20, 1975 by columbia records. Gabriel garcia marquez was a newspaperman originally in colombia. Dylan subsequently rerecorded some of the tracks with different uncredited on the sleeve musicians.
Hamill won a grammy for those notes, which are really more of an essay than anything. We had an embarrassment of riches, and we had to make tough choices. Oct 29, 2008 ive often heard about this first pressing that has the liner notes that were written about blood on the tracks before dylan went in an rerecorded a few songs. But i do think made in the united year is very realistic his craft with subtle an easy amble. Never before collected in one volume, here are pete hamill s stories about brooklyn, the borough in which he was born and grew up, and the one closest to his heart. Burgundy color cardstock inner sleeve barcode and other identifiers matrix runout a side label. Jan 24, 2019 when it comes to legendary newspaper columnists, the names jimmy breslin and pete hamill have to be at or very near the top of the list.
His father, billy hamill, emigrated in 1924 and lost a leg from an injury in a semipro soccer game three years later in brooklyn. Pete hamill, liner notes to blood on the tracks there are three versions of idiot wind that bares remarks. Bob dylan blood on the tracks lyrics and tracklist genius. By the mid70s, even dylans most ardent supporters began taking his artistic decline for granted. But he also wrote about jazz, rock n roll winning a 1975 grammy for best liner notes for bob dylans blood on the tracks, boxing, baseball, and art. Jun 11, 2007 pete hamill writes about new york in a way that only a born and bred new yorker can. I appear to have a copy of the original pressing but it is a promo copy. Released in 1975 on blood on the tracks, if you see her, say hello takes the form of a plea for the listener to pass on a message to a lost love. If asked for a single word that accurately and completely sums up pete hamills career, there is only one answer writer. This striking essay, written by hamill for the cover of the classic bob dylan albumand for which hamill won a grammyremains one of my favorite pieces of anybodys writing.
Full of songs about heartache, anger, and loneliness, the album has since been regarded as the standard for. He wrote the freakin liner notes for blood on the tracks. My own family history is rooted in this town and i now live in the very area in which this novel is set. This is the firstissue with liner notes in black font on rear cover. Classic blood on the tracks remains bob dylans most. Pete hamill books list of books by author pete hamill. After 30 years, pete hamill returns to brooklyn the new. Flesh and blood by pete hamill goodreads share book. One result was that the young bob dylan read it and invited me to his first concert at town hall. Its a wonderfully well thoughtout and well researched history of new york city as told through the eyes of one fictional character.
Hes a former reporter and columnist whos written for the post, the daily news, the village voice, and. Click to read more about blood on the tracks sound recording by bob dylan. He wrote about the new york underclass too, their hopes and ambitions, and sometimes, tragedies. Deadline artists, an hbo documentary premiering monday, jan. The album marked dylans return to columbia records after a twoalbum stint with asylum records. Pete hamill, liner notes to blood on the tracks the 2019 novel coronavirus, first detected late last year in the hub city of wuhan, china is a rapidlyspreading viral disease, often characterized.
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