Between escape attempts, Hardin, son of a preacher, read theology and studied law. During most of the recording, the rhythm section of drummer Kenneth A. Buttrey and bassist Charlie McCoy were the only ones supporting Dylan, who handled all harmonica, guitar, piano, and vocal parts. Hardin's parents and wife were taken into protective custody, while his brother Joe and two cousins, brothers Bud and Tom Dixon, were arrested on outstanding warrants. Wesley Stace On Mountain Stage. There was very little songwriting activity, as well. Upon the album's release, rumors circulated that the faces of the Beatles were hidden on the front cover in the knots of the tree. Hardin had a quick temper, which often got him into trouble. After his appearance at Woody Guthrie's memorial concert, 1968 would see little, if any, musical activity from Bob Dylan. [7]:3334, In the summer of 1871, while driving cattle on the Chisholm Trail to Abilene, Kansas, Hardin is reputed to have fought Mexican vaqueros and cattle rustlers. [17] Hardin also briefly taught school in Pisgah. [38] Years later, Hardin made a casual reference to the episode: "They tell lots of lies about me," he complained. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. [7]:3032, A Texas Historical Marker notes that in the 1870s, Hardin hid out in the vicinity of Pilgrim, Texas. A murderer to most, a folk hero to some, but one of the true legends of the Old West was the violent gunslinger John Wesley Hardin. The incident earned Hardin a reputation as a man "so mean, he once shot a man for snoring". In the course of his career he outgunned and killed at least eight Union soldiers and four black policemen pursuing him on various murder charges. As late as 2000, Clinton Heylin wrote, "John Wesley Harding remains one of Dylan's most enduring albums. He is the great-grandfather of legendary Texas outlaw and gunslinger, John Wesley Hardin. It was war to the knife for me, and I brought it on by opening the fight with a double-barreled shotgun and ended it with a cap and ball six-shooter. The Life of John Wesley Hardin, As Written by Himself is an autobiography by the famous outlaw. [14] Towards the end of the drive, a Mexican herd crowded in behind Hardin's and there was some trouble keeping the two herds apart. Hardin wrote in his autobiography that he rode to get help for the wounded man, but Maje died three days later. At the time of sentencing, Hardin claimed to have killed 42 men,[3] while contemporary newspaper accounts attributed 27 deaths to him. In May 2002, Disney pulled the plug on Mammoth Records just weeks before the June 25th release date of John Wesley Harding's The Man with No Shadow. Order your copy of "Texas Depression Era Desperadoes." by mailing a check for $24.00 to Bartee Haile, P.O. [7]:20 Dozens of people saw this fight, and from them there is a good record of how Hardin had used his guns. It was about this time that Hardin married Jane Bowen and started to keep regular company with her brother, cattle rustler Robert Bowen. Dylan went to work on John Wesley Harding in the fall of 1967. John Wesley Harding was Dylan's last LP to be issued simultaneously in both monophonic (CL 2804) and stereophonic (CS 9604) formats. The first instance was when an Indian tried to shoot an arrow at him on the South Canadian River. May 26, 1874: Hardin killed Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb in Comanche, Texas. Join the club in our final episode of the season as we discuss Fables in a Foreign Land, the LA punk rock scene, and Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding. I waylaid them, as I had no mercy on men whom I knew only wanted to get my body to torture and kill. It is not known when these songs were actually written, but none of them have turned up in the dozens of basement recordings that have since surfaced. El Paso may not have been big enough for both of them, but the graveyard had room to spare. He wrote that he and Jim Clements prevented the rest of the vaqueros aside from those who were already killed from firing on them by deliberately stampeding the Mexican herd. [4] In 2003, it was ranked number 301 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, moving to 303 in the 2012 version of that list,[5] then to 337 in the 2020 version. 1849-1873, March 11, 1871, Image 1", The Weekly Democratic Statesman August 28, 1873 p.2 Library of Congress August 13,2020, "Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the State of Texas", "Fort Worth gazette. Pursued by lawmen for most of his life, in 1877 at the age of 23, he was sentenced to 24 years in prison for murder. More music I didn't sit down and plan that sound.". His songs continued to be a major presence, appearing on landmark albums by Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds, and the Band, but Dylan himself would not release or perform any additional music. In November 1876, in Mobile, Alabama, Hardin was arrested briefly for having marked cards. At an unknown date between 1871 and 1872, Hardin claimed that 45 miles outside Corpus Christie, Texas, he was followed by two Mexicans; that he killed one and the other fled. [7]:pp.5456[33]. His father dissuaded him . ", DeMattos, Jack. Dear Landlord iTUNES 8. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Bradley allegedly fired a shot at Hardin and missed; Hardin drew both his pistols and returned fire, one shot striking Bradley in the head and the other in his chest. "[10] However, in a 1995 interview, Berg clarified that although the images seem to resemble the Beatles, this was not done intentionally, nor was he aware of the resemblance until it was pointed out to him after the album's release: "Later on, I got a call from Rolling Stone magazine in San Francisco. His autobiography was published posthumously in 1925 by Bandera publisher, historian, and journalist J. Marvin Hunter, who founded both the Frontier Times magazine and the Frontier Times Museum. He was well known for fabricating or wildly exaggerating stories about his life. Allegedly, Hardin was also involved in this killing of Thomas Holderman. John Wesley Harding Friends - A Bloody Show Live at Bumbershoot 2005 DVD Used. John Wesley, (born June 17, 1703, Epworth, Lincolnshire, Englanddied March 2, 1791, London), Anglican clergyman, evangelist, and founder, with his brother Charles, of the Methodist movement in the Church of England. During that time, he stockpiled a large number of recordings, including many new compositions. The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). He first shouted several times for the man to "rollover" and then, irritated by the lack of response, drunkenly fired several bullets through the shared wall, in an apparent effort to awaken him. July 17, 1873: Hardin killed J.B. Morgan in Cuero, Texas. These men constitu'ted themselves into a court 'and hanged a negro boy." Selman's 56-year-old father, Constable John Selman Sr. (himself a notorious gunman and former outlaw), approached Hardin on the afternoon of August 19, 1895, and the two men exchanged heated words. John R. Hardin came to this country from England about 1745. He had reconciled with his estranged parents. Un bandido con nombre de predicador. The murderer escaped. While the media would never lose interest, Dylan maintained a low enough profile that kept him out of the spotlight. [citation needed], On January 20, 1875, the Texas Legislature authorized Governor Richard B. Hubbard to offer a $4,000 reward for Hardin's arrest. [30][31] Hardin admitted to being involved in the shooting of the Mexican. As noted above, Hardin claimed to have captured Abilene law officer Tom Carson and other officers and humiliated them sans clothing. Box 130011, Spring, TX 77393. State Seals were found on Joseph Hardin after his lynching. I said fine, but also suggested we add a steel guitar, which is how Pete Drake came to be on that record. Born May 26, 1853, in Bonham, Texas, John Wesley Hardin was the son of a Methodist preacher and schoolteacher. Previous versions differ. Showing 1-2 of 2 "A bullet to the front of the head demonstrates good marksmanship. [65][66], Selman Sr. was arrested for murder and stood trial. magazine, "For an album of this kind to be released amidst Sgt. Mid 1877: "Jake" Menzel and Robert Borup tried to capture Hardin in. Born in 1853 in Bonham, Texas, Hardin was the son of a Methodist minister and grew up in a strict, religious household. [7]:106 It is not known if Hardin was directly or indirectly involved in the killing of Reuben Brown, as he makes no further mention of the incident in his life story. (This is not to say that there wasn't a shooting incident. "[7]:1011, On February 17, 1894, Hardin was released from prison, having served seventeen years of his twenty-five-year sentence. Stakes and 12 citizens in, July 26, 1872: Texas State Policeman Sonny Speights was wounded in the shoulder by Hardin in. Back. We do not know from what country they came , nor the date of landing, but suppose it was about 1745. The liner notes tells the story of three kings and three characters (Terry Shute, Frank, and Frank's wife, Vera), incorporating details from the album's songs. [7]:5051 Hardin alleged that when his cousin, Mannen Clements, was jailed for the killing of two cowhands (Joe and Dolph Shadden) in July 1871, Hickok at Hardin's request arranged for his escape. November 19, 1872: Hardin mysteriously escaped from the sheriff of Gonzales County, Texas, despite a guard of six men. He killed at least 21 men in gun duels and ambushes in the period 186877. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall, Vol. [7]:1011, In 1867[7]:7 while attending his father's school, Hardin was taunted by another student, Charles Sloter. Hickok had no knowledge that Hardin was a wanted man, and he advised Hardin to avoid problems while in Abilene. In fact, Dixon's mother had been divorced in 1851. He was famous as one of the most profligate killers in the Old West. John Wesley Harding (1967). [7]:79[42]:30 Later that day, Hardin killed Helm in the town square of Albuquerque, Texas. Hardin was born in 1853, killed between thirty and forty men which allegedly included a poor soul in wild Bill Hickock's Abeline Kansas, who's only crime was snoring. [20], After killing Bradley, Hardin claimed that when a posse of fifteen men came after him, he captured two of them and took a shotgun, two six-shooters, a rifle, and two derringers from his captives. It is reported that the hanging ropes were deliberately left too long (in order to cause death through slow strangulation), as grass was found between their toes. xxx xxxx. So it ended up coming out the way he brought it back.". Hardins career and exploits were self-advertised in an autobiography published posthumously, The Life of John Wesley Hardin as Written by Himself (1896). [7]:30 Following his arrest, he was held temporarily in a log jail in the town of Marshall, awaiting transfer to Waco for trial. Genres: Singer-Songwriter, Pop Rock, Alternative Rock. Finally, in flight from Texas, he was caught in a Pensacola, Fla., train depot and returned to Austin, Texas, for trial in September 1877. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete. On May 15, 1873, Jim Cox and Jake Christman were killed by the Taylor faction at Tumlinson Creek. Soon afterwards, on August 6, 1871, Hardin, his cousin Gip Clements, and a rancher friend named Charles Couger put up for the night at the American House Hotel after an evening of gambling. City & Area Directories. In his autobiography, Hardin admitted that he had "adopted" this alias from Brenham, Texas, Town Marshal Henry Swain, who had married a cousin of Hardin's named Molly Parks. However, when Hardin learned of how many murders Reagan was going to charge him with, he changed his mind. John Wesley Harding was well received by critics and sold well, reaching No. He was well known for exaggerating or fabricating stories about his life and claimed credit for many killings that cannot be corroborated. [26], Regardless of when this session actually occurred, the Band did accompany Dylan for at least one performance in the months following John Wesley Harding. Cut between 9pm and 12 midnight, "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" and "Down Along the Cove" would be the only two songs featuring Drake's light pedal steel guitar. The two entrepreneurs had painted a picture of a bull with a large erect penis on the side of their establishment as an advertisement. 2.69. John Wesley Harding (1967) Buy it now Amazon iTunes track 1. Hardin's violent career started in 1867 with a schoolyard squabble in which he stabbed another youth. Hardin escaped, but the soldiers apprehended Polk and jailed him temporarily. :1114[16], Hardin knew that he would be arrested if he returned home. John Wesley Hardin [John Wesely Hardin] Birth. The Bull's Head Tavern, in Abilene, Kansas, had been established as a partnership between ex-lawman Ben Thompson and gambler Phil Coe. [7]:92, The death of the popular Webb resulted in the quick formation of a lynch mob. [26][27] Hardin also claimed to have killed two Indians in separate gunfights on the same cattle drive. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine iTUNES 4. After the early 19th century saw the glorification of frontier folk heroes like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, a new breed of folk icons inhabited the Wild West, and one of the most notorious and controversial of them all is John Wesley Hardin, still regarded today as Texas' most deadly . Bob Dylan's eighth studio album John Wesley Harding (released 12/27/67) may be the most singular piece of work he's ever created. "The 'album concept' and progressive-pop movement, which was virtually unearthed with Pepper, was indeed the order of the day. John Wesley Harding is clearly inspired by the life of a real-life outlaw, John Wesley Hardin. He claimed credit for many murders that cannot be corroborated. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Reissued, Remastered Bob Dylan Format: Audio CD 784 ratings Amazon's Choice for "john wesley harding bob dylan" $798 Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns See all 59 formats and editions Streaming Unlimited MP3 $9.99 Listen with our Free App Audio CD Most of all he was a coldblooded killer. The Mexican fired his gun at Hardin, putting a hole through Hardin's hat. ", Parsons, Chuck. See Chuck Parsons "A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West ".p.117. In 1862, at age nine, Hardin tried to run away from home and join the Confederate army. Son of a Methodist preacher, John Wesley Hardin was only 15 years old when he first had a price placed on his head. Years later, Hardin referred to the episode: The Civil War broke out when Hardin was eight years old. For its title track, see, The Bootleg Series Vol. In the song, Dylan accepts Hardin's own account of himself as a good citizen who was more sinned against than a sinner: As Dylan sings, "He was never known to hurt an honest man." Later that year, on March 16, Hardin was pardoned, and, on July 21, he passed the state's bar examination, obtaining his license to practice law. Reaching adolescence as the defeated South entered the Reconstruction period, Hardin was virulently antiblack and anti-Yankee and, in 1868 at the age of 15, killed his first man, an ex-slave. Joe Tomlinson. The Lone Star State. Sponsored. While there, he claimed he shot a man's eye out to win a bottle of whiskey in a bet. January 5, 1870: Hardin killed Benjamin Bradley and claimed to have brought about the "disappearance" of a "Judge Moore." He is an accomplished musician, actor, and poet. See more John Wesley Harding by Bob Dylan (CD, 1989) Share | Add to Watch list. In February 1871, while the herd was being collected for the drive to Kansas, a freedman, Bob King, attempted to cut a beef cow out of the herd. Some accounts state that Hardin pistol-whipped the younger man. [53] An undercover Texas Ranger named Jack Duncan intercepted a letter sent to Hardin's father-in-law by Hardin's brother-in-law, Joshua Robert "Brown" Bowen. From Newport to the Ancient Empty Street in L.A. Old West: The Gunfighters. Sharing the bill with his folk contemporaries like Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, and Guthrie's son, Arlo, Dylan gave his first public performances in twenty months, backed by the Band (billed then as the Crackers). After Bowen's execution in the summer of 1878, Hardin was implicated in Holderman's death as well. After hearing of Woody Guthrie's passing (two weeks before John Wesley Harding's first session), Dylan contacted Harold Leventhal, Guthrie's longtime friend and manager, and extended an early acceptance to any invitation for any memorial show that might be planned. Clive Davis urged Dylan to pull a single, but even then Dylan refused, preferring to maintain the album's low-key profile. accessed September 21, 2018, "Boastful Bill Longley: Cold-blooded Texas Killer - HistoryNet", Fastest draw at the auction house: Collectors snap up antique firearms, Old West memorabilia, (Note: Internet Archive digitized 1896 edition is available). [16], The album was re-released as one of the 15 Dylan titles remastered for Hybrid SACD on September 16, 2003, and was reissued again as part of The Original Mono Recordings on October 10, 2010. I mean, if you wanted to see it, you could see it. Born in Bonham, Texas in 1853, his father was a Methodist Minister who named him for the founder of the. Western Outlaw. [8]:1[9] The Hardins were Southerners and politically prominent. The first session, held on October 17 at Columbia's Studio A, lasted only three hours, with Dylan recording master takes of "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine", "Drifter's Escape", and "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest". Another Colt revolver (known as a .41-caliber "Thunderer"), which was owned by Hardin and used by him to rob the Gem Saloon, was sold at the same auction for $100,000. His father, a Methodist preacher, named his son after the founder of the Methodist denomination. [46], On March 11, 1874, the SuttonTaylor feud intensified when Jim and Bill Taylor gunned down Billy Sutton and Gabriel Slaughter[47] as they waited on a steamboat platform in Indianola, Texas. "Keeping Score on John Wesley Hardin. Hardin often got into trouble with the law from an early age. After six years of education . Polk had killed a man named Tom Brady, and a detachment of soldiers sent from Corsicana, Texas, were pursuing the duo. C $12.21 + C $19.76 shipping. No more than 300 hundred journalists received advance CDs of Harding's new record, while only a handful of radio stations received the single "Negative Love." No other physical copies existed. TO J.W.H.". [7]:73 Hardin made a sick-bed surrender to authorities, handing over his guns to Sheriff Reagan and asking to be tried for his past crimes in order "to clear the slate". "I would have liked more steel guitar, more piano. Hardin said he was unarmed and excused himself but claimed that later that night, Bradley came looking for him. home the secret series news events music albums archival releases dynablobs EPs shop. Hardin claimed that in a saloon on election night in November 1876, he and a companion, Hardin claimed to have met two notorious fellow outlaws during his life: in 1870, he supposedly gambled with, James "Gip" Hardinhis brother-killed Deputy Sheriff Deputy Sherriff John Turman March 28, 1898, for which he served a jail term, Bourne, McNeal. John Wesley Hardin was one of the Old West's most notorious killers: a ruthless outlaw who once killed a man just for snoring. Two Texas state policemen, Captain Edward T. Stakes and an officer named Jim Smalley,[7]:3031[21] were assigned to escort Hardin to Waco for trial. [55][56][57] Hardin claimed that he was captured while smoking his pipe and that Duncan found Hardin's pistol under his shirt only after his arrest. "[37] ("Monday night", as reported by the newspaper, would have been August 7, 1871, not August 6.) Follow Author John Wesley Hardin > Quotes (?) That same month, Hardin may have wounded three Mexicans in an argument over a Three-card Monte card game, pistol-whipping one man over the head, shooting one man in the arm, and shooting the third man in the lung. 1967 Preview This 1967 album transcended easy categorization as Bob Dylan moved from the experimentation and rock of his few previous releases. [7]:105107 [50] On November 18, 1875, the leader of the Suttons,[51] ex-Cuero, Texas, town marshal Reuben Brown was shot and killed by five men in Cuero along with a negro named Tom Freeman, with another negro being wounded. Well, it ain't true. There, Hardin's father established and taught at the school that John Hardin and his siblings attended. Hardin claimed this was the fastest way to draw, and he practiced every day. Half-dressed and still drunk, he and Clements exited through a second-story window onto the roof of the hotel. Citizens complained to town marshal "Wild Bill" Hickok. John Wesley Hardin Quotes (Author of The Life of John Wesley Hardin) Goodreads helps you follow your favorite authors. At age nine he tried to run away from home to join the Confederate Army, and at age 14 some kid in his school wrote a nasty thing about a girl in their class on the side of a barn so Hardin fucking shanked that kid with a knife and almost killed him. Harding is Johnny Cash 's outlaw figure, "he was never known to hurt an honest man" folk-hero of a different kind, John Wesley Harding "a friend to the poor." Call him Robin Hood if it. They played only three songs ("Grand Coulee Dam", "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt", and "I Ain't Got No Home"), and it would be another eighteen months before Dylan would again perform in concert.[25]. John Wesley Hardin, one of the bloodiest killers of the Old West, is murdered by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. Simply put, he is an amazingly talented artist. John Wesley "Wes" Hardin (1853-1895), son of James "Gip" Gibson Hardin (1823 - 1876) and Mary Elizabeth Dixon (1826 - 1885), was a notorious outlaw and gunfighter in nineteenth-century Texas. Well, I had a proof of the cover on my wall, so I went and turned it upside down and sure enough . A firefight between the rival camps ensued. Hardin found that his own weapon, a worn-out cap-and-ball pistol with a loose cylinder, would not fire. Intro: D D John Wesley Harding A Was a friend to the poor, D He trav'led with a gun in ev'ry hand. "[6] Later, in his contradictory 1896 autobiography, Hardin completely omitted the "snoring man" from the story, and he related not only a wrong date (July 7 instead of August 6) but claimed the shooting was a case of self-defense, saying that the man he killed had first tried to stab him with a dirk[7]:58 and was a burglar who tried to make off with his pants. Attached is a Memorial cdv image of John Wesley Hardin, previously unknown, or undocumented. Hardin had numerous confirmed clashes with the law: Hardin's autobiography is filled with statements which can either not be confirmed independently from his book, or differ wildly from the historical record:[7]:1011. p. 238. Save a Little Room for Me. Not tempted to incorporate even later basement visions like 'Going to Acapulco' and 'Clothesline Saga,' Dylan managed in less than six weeks to construct his most perfectly executed official collection."[25]. John Wesley Hardin, one of the deadliest men in the history of the Old West, arrives in Abilene, Kansas, where he briefly becomes friends with Marshal Wild Bill Hickok.. Hardin revealed a tendency . The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest iTUNES 6. He saw Hickok arrive with four policemen. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, November 19, 1875, Image 1", "Daily Fort Worth Standard - Google News Archive Search", "Billings v. Concordia Heritage Association, Inc", "Dallas herald. Hardin denied writing the poetry, claiming in turn that Sloter was the author. Picks on Rebels, especially Texans, to kill." John Wesley Hardin (May 26, 1853 August 19, 1895) was an American Old West outlaw, gunfighter, and controversial folk icon. "[7]:22, Later that month, on January 20 in Horn Hill, Limestone County, Texas, Hardin claimed he killed a man in a gunfight after an argument at the circus. Start by following John Wesley Hardin. Hardin spotted Brown County Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb entering the premises. Shortly before midnight, Selman Sr. entered the saloon, walked up to Hardin from behind, and shot him in the head, killing him instantly. Hardin wrote that he was first exposed to violence in 1861 when he saw a man named Turner Evans stabbed by John Ruff. Sometimes disparaged for his striking vocal similarity to Elvis Costello who has, himself, expressed displeasure with the uncanny likeness Wesley Harding Stace boasts many appealing virtues that belong to him alone. Born in central Texas on May 26, 1853, Hardin killed. He married again but then abandoned his wife and moved on to El Paso, where he began a life of dissipation and thievery. In a vintage 1924 article, John Hunter quotes John Wesley Hardin's midwife as predicting he would either turn out to be a "great hero" or a "monumental villain." In truth, he was wholly neither and a little of both. September 1873, in Brooksville, Hernando County, Florida, a former slave named Allen May was shot and killed. The album was released at the end of a year marked by what came to be known as the psychedelic era of contemporary rock and, in in its spare instrumentation and tradition-influenced songwriting, was diametrically opposed to the kaleidoscopic likes of Jimi . His last murder in Texas was the killing of the sheriff of Comanche county. August 6, 1871: Hardin killed Charles Couger in Abilene, Kansas. [citation needed]. Gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was one of the most notorious killers to come out of the Old West (while staying overnight at a hotel, he was awakened by the snoring of a man in the next room; Hardin reached over, grabbed his pistol and fired a shot through the wall, killing the man). This may not have been the first killing Hardin Was involved in: A US Congressional record reports that "No.302 Kaufman county, August 1867.- John Love, L.T.Nash, Joe Hardin, and J. Hardin {white} murdered Tom {colored}. In Hardin's version of the killing, he names the murdered cattleman as "Billy Coran" and the Mexican as "Bideno". Hardin was convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison. While there, he read theological books, becoming the superintendent of the prison Sunday School, and studied law. John Wesley (Wes) Hardin, outlaw, son of James G. and Elizabeth Hardin, was born in Bonham, Texas, on May 26, 1853. [61], While in prison, he wrote an autobiography. 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