Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliot, The

Product Description

Ramblin' Jack is a key figure in the development of American folk music, a link between Woody Guthrie and Guthrie disciple Bob Dylan. Like Dylan, Ramblin' Jack was a young Jewish folksinger in love with the idea of the dust bowl balladeer, changing his name (from Adnopoz to Elliott) and adopting a Guthrie-esque persona. He went a step further than the younger Dylan by travelling around with Guthrie. Unlike Dylan, Elliott always stuck close to the traditional folk style, as heard on this definitive, lengthy (originally a double album) collection.
With a weathered, earthy voice and considerable fingerpicking skills, he tackles a program of traditional folk and blues, providing a template that would be expanded by Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, and others. The second half of the disc, taken from a 1965 concert before an appreciative folk revival-happy audience, comes full circle by including a version of Dylan's "Dont Think Twice, It's All Right", which sounds perfectly at home amid the traditional material.

Track list

1. Roving Gambler
2. Black Snake
3. Portland Town
4. More Pretty Girls
5. San Francisco Bay Blues
6. Buffalo Skinners
7. Sadie Brown
8. Don't Think Twice It's All Right
9. Blind Lemon Jefferson
10. Ramblin' Round Your City
11. Talkin' Columbia
12. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
13. Tennessee Stud
14. Night Herding Song
15. Love Sick Blues
16. I Belong To Glasgow
17. Diamant Joe
18. Guabi Guabi
19. Sowing On The Mountain
20. Roll On Buddy
21. 1913 Massacre
22. House Of The Rising Sun
23. Shade Of The Old Apple Tree