Friends Of Mine

Product Description

This gorgeous album of duets pairs the old wandering cowboy with a bunch of singers whose voices are as gritty and frayed as his, and adds a couple of famous female voices for sweet relief. But what a collection of vocal grit--Tom Waits, John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker and Guy Clark, for starters. It's pretty much a living hall of fame of folk and country singers, and for this labour of love they each picked a favourite tune to sing with Elliott, who's been an inspiration to all of them (Waits, for his part, wrote a new song for the project, though you'd be forgiven if you thought his "Louise" was a long lost folk classic). The pickings include two Bob Dylan songs--Elliott and Prine's version of the Dylan prison ballad "Walls Of Red Wing" is priceless--and old favourites by Townes Van Zandt, Woody Guthrie and the Grateful Dead (whose Bob Weir joins Elliott on "Friend Of The Devil"). Elliott ends the album with a rare original tune, "Bleeker Street Blues", an ode to Dylan.

Track list

1. Rex's Blues
2. Friend Of The Devil
3. Reason To Believe
4. Bleeker Street Blues
5. Me And Billy The Kid
6. Louise
7. Walls Of Red Wing
8. Hard Travellin'
9. He Was A Friend Of Mine
10. Ridin' Down The Canyon
11. Last Letter
12. Dark As A Dungeon