Yay for Bob!

do they give prestigious awards to people who actually deserve them anymore?

It’s about time Rock took it’s rightful place in the long list of Pulitzer Prize winners. I’ve been a Dylan fan ever since I had a real Bob Dylan’s Miracle experience. But that’s another story. I would like to commend the Pulitzer Prize committee for their wise choice. Not since Wynton Marsalis won the award has this Jazz and BluesLady been so elated. His thoughtful and passionate work chills my heart, soul and often makes me cry. The Civil Rights era obliviously influenced Dylan’s production of many of his musical treasures and they are still apropos. Fortunately, the United States is moving in the direction of positive change.

As I watched the awards programmes I reflected back to the time when my late husband Hans Marius Stormoen and I were translating Bob Dylan’s book Chronicles-volume one into Norwegian. While watching his modest acceptance speech, I felt as if I knew Bob just a bit more as a human being. It didn’t seem as if the award was a big deal at all. Dylan has more than one side and that award programme captured that with all its rapture.

Zainab McCoy