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Ramblin' Jack Elliott,Ramblin' Jack Elliott,P-Vine Japan,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Folksongs,Pop,Traditional Folk
Average customer rating:
- This is the best new CD I've heard in a long time
- Jack Elliot in Classic Form
- Old Jack
- Music to Grin by
- Folk Music
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I Stand Alone
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Anti
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000FMGTXA
Release Date: 2006-07-11 |
Tracks:
- Engine 143
- Arthritis Blues
- Old Blue
- Driving Nails In My Coffin
- Rake & Ramblin' Boy
- Hong Kong Blues
- Jean Harlow
- Call Me A Dog
- Careless Darling
- Mr. Garfield
- My Old Dog & Me
- Leaving Cheyenne
- Remember Me
- Willy Moore
- Honey, Where You Been So Long
- Woody's Last Ride
Amazon.com
They don't call him Ramblin' Jack because he travels around a lot, and they don't call him the Last Brooklyn Cowboy because he croons like his hero Gene Autry. You can't really acquire a taste for Elliott's briny, staggering voice--you just have to surrender to the persona. In his 75th year, that persona is in fine, witty, playful form. He laughs out loud at the lines "Now when I die, don't bury me at all / Just place me away in alcohol / My .44 put by my feet / Tell everyone I'm just asleep" and jokes with his physician on "Arthritis Blues" ("Doctor, doctor, get your X-ray machine / Feels so good, just about like morphine"). Turns out his guitar chops are tougher than his rheumatism: he bangs away at his acoustic like the last one-man band standing at the all-night hootenanny, though when a rare accompanist shares the spotlight--as do David Hidalgo on accordion, Nels Cline on Dobro, Flea on bass, DJ Bonebrake on drums, and Lucinda Williams and Corin Tucker on harmony vocals--the effect is like a cool chaser to his rotgut whiskey drawl. These dog songs, train songs, love songs, fleetingly remembered songs, and one original (the brief monologue "Woody's Last Ride") have been with him forever; they're funny even when tragic, soulful even when they turn tunefulness upside down. --Roy Kasten
Album Description
Bob Dylan called him his "long lost father". He's a living link to Woody Guthrie, Brownie McGhee, and the beat poets. Mick Jagger, Lou Reed, Van Morrison, Paul McCartney, Kris Kristoffersen, Bruce Springsteen, and Beck all cite him as an inspiration. Now more than ever, Elliott stands alone, a crucial reminder of a proud and dying American tradition - a self-made wayfarer whose fifty-plus years of experience resonate in every note he sings. This is the most intimate recording of his career, cradled by a family of guests that include Lucinda Williams, David Hidalgo, Flea, Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney, and Wilco guitarist Nels Cline. Elliott offers an introspective look back at his career, through meditative takes on favorites and untried material. At 74, he still has plenty of hunt left in him.
Customer Reviews:
This is the best new CD I've heard in a long time.......2007-06-16
This is my introduction to Ramblin' Jack Elliott and it is everything I'm looking for in a new album. During my 4th listening I became completely overcome with emotion, cried even. I'm embarrassed that it has taken me so long to check his stuff out. He's my new favorite artist.
Jack Elliot in Classic Form.......2007-02-03
Few artists could get away with boldly proclaiming "I Stand Alone" as Ramblin' Jack Elliot does on this release. All it takes is one listen to validate that he does stand alone, in song selection, delivery and musicianship. This album is refreshing because one finds a lot of overlap on his other releases--Jack Elliot standards like "1913 Massacre", "Solider's Last Letter", "Buffalo Skinners", etc.--and for good reason, they are all wonderful songs that he has made his own through his many years of playing them. But what sets this album, apart, for me, are the new songs Jack gives us that we haven't heard before. "Ol' Blue", for example, is in my opinion arguably one of the most beautiful songs he has ever recorded, and showcases Cisco Houston's talents as a songwriter. Other standouts include "Mr. Garfield", "Hong Kong Blues" and "My Old Dog & Me". And though he includes some of his favorites that he has recorded before, they are also some of his best - relatively obscure songs like "Arthritis Blues" and "Rake and Ramblin' Boy". Rounding everything out are some country-western classics that veer from Elliot's roots leanings, particularly "Driving Nails in My Coffin", "Careless Darling" and "Remember Me". The fact that Elliot's daughter Ilyana urged him to make this album is a nice footnote to another sweet release by a true master.
Old Jack.......2007-01-16
This is a sweet and melancholy CD from an older Jack Elliot, same great voice, great energy, singing about old man things.
Music to Grin by.......2007-01-05
Last night sitting at the kitchen table sipping some fine whiskey, I listened to this album for the first time. Had been a long time since I grinned through an entire CD. Jack Elliot has got it.
The kids wondered what this weird music was I was listening to, but they sat down and enjoyed the songs also.
Good stuff.
Folk Music.......2007-01-04
Jack shows his considerable skill in guitar and finds the the poetry of life in music form. Great feeling in this volume. I think it is also a pretty good meditation upon his life(or yours.
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- Horses
- Great But Not Quite Essential
- I really like the way he plays guitar.
- JACK ELLIOTT IS AN AMERICAN ICON
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The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Vanguard Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000000ECA
Release Date: 1993-03-20 |
Tracks:
- Roving Gambler
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
- Diamond Joe
- Guabi Guabi
- Sowing On The Mountain
- Roll On Buddy
- 1913 Massacre
- House Of The Rising Sun
- Shade Of The Old Apple Tree
- Black Snake
- Portland Town
- More Pretty Girls
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Buffalo Skinners
- Sadie Brown
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
- Blind Lemon Jefferson
- Ramblin' Round Your City
- Talkin' Columbia
- Tennessee Stud
- Night Herding Song
- Love Sick Blues
- I Belong To Glasgow
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In terms of song selection, this is, indeed, the essential Ramblin' Jack. Originally released as a two-LP set, this 23-song collection is split into studio and live halves. The studio portion consists of a bracing assortment of traditional tunes that Elliott picked up from his many travels. He was, after all, Woody Guthrie's last road companion, and the highlight of the first dozen tunes is Guthrie's dramatic "1913 Massacre." The last section of the CD was recorded in concert at the Town Hall in New York City. The Ramblin' Jack of 1965 was a versatile, likable performer as adept at essaying old cowboy tunes ("Buffalo Skinners," "Night Herding Song") as then-contemporary folk tunes (protégé Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right"). One complaint, though: liner notes explaining this linchpin folkie's role as a bridge between generations of troubadours would make The Essential all the more indispensable. --Steven Stolder
Customer Reviews:
Horses.......2006-07-16
I met Ramblin' Jack in 1967. He had come to Tampa to do a gig at a tiny coffee house. He was late. (Yeah, so, what's new.) He had driven from NC and was frazzed. He proceeded, after a glass of water, to give it his all, for hours.
After the show, knowing he was a rodeo cowboy, I asked him if he would like to stay with me and meet my barrel racing champion Appaloosa stallion -- Snapper. Say no more.... We've stayed in touch as we wandered through our lives over almost 40 years.
What Dylan learned, he learned and Jack is totally giving as were all the folks who came to Woody's. He was a sponge, a user who drifted through. A musical wizard who was predisposed to Woody's stuff. It would be nice if he were to acknowledge those who formed him. Since he is not nice, he won't.
Jack has faithfully taken Woody's legacy and has, not as a writer, but a performer, become a treasure, a peer to his mentor.
He has only gotten better in the last, what, almost 60 years.
His body hurts, but his mind is free. He and Pete Seegar are the greatest living people's musicians.
Great But Not Quite Essential.......2003-02-26
The essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott is to be found on CDs released on labels other than Vanguard. Nonetheless, this is the best on CD from RJE's middle period, the years when he almost became a star but with considerable effort on his own part managed to avoid it (for which we owe him thanks unending) after teetering on a dangerous brink at Warner Brothers in 1967. This package CD includes two vinyl Vanguard albums that have little to do with one another but certainly give us lots of slices of RJE at a very good price. The first dozen songs are studio takes that appeared on the 1964 Vanguard LP "Jack Elliott," also repeated on the mildly interesting Vanguard CD "The Vanguard Years." The various tracks include accompaniment by Bob Dylan on guitar and mouth harp, aliasing as Tedham Porterhouse, and Erik Darling on banjo ("Will the Circle Be Unbroken"), Ian & Sylvia, Eric Weissberg, John Herald and Monte Dunn ("Guabi Guabi"), John Hammond on mouth harp ("Roll On Buddy") and bassist Bill Lee on several numbers. No, don't look for this or any other information in Vanguard's liner notes. There aren't any liner notes. These studio takes - as one might expect with such helpers on board - made for the liveliest of all RJE's studio sessions up to that time. However, one only gets 100% of Ramblin' Jack when he's playing to an audience, and that's what he does on this CD's last 11 tracks, all taken from his superlative April 30,1965 concert at New York City's Town Hall. When RJE begins Track No. 13, Jesse Fuller's "San Francisco Bay Blues" in concert, the atmosphere begins to glow. In a sense, all 11 live pieces are highlights. If so, the first among equals are Leadbelly's "Blind Lemon Jefferson," Hank Williams' "Lovesick Blues" and Scottish comedian Will Ffyfe's "I Belong to Glasgow," which is one of several high points in the RJE discography, far better than the 1961 studio version for Prestige International, now on the Fantasy CD "Ramblin' Jack Elliott." If you're a Ramblin' Jack fan, you'd be downright foolish to avoid acquiring this CD.
I really like the way he plays guitar........2001-11-28
The song selection on this disc is superb. My favorite song, "Guabi Guabi" is the only one that he gets credit for having written, and that doesn't make sense, because he is singing it like it is written in a foreign language. At one point in the song, he even gives up and says that he couldn't keep up, it goes too fast for him. That happens to me all the time when other people are using a language that I don't really know, but Jack makes it seem like anybody's brain could do that all by itself. The only Bob Dylan song here is "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" and this is the perfect kind of album for that song to be on, since practically everybody likes to know at least one song right off the bat. Jack gives a couple examples of Huddie Ledbetter introducing some songs, and it's too bad he didn't have some kind of historical introduction for "Black Snake," a song which must have come from somewhere vaguely familiar, but this album doesn't say where. I like the pitiful part of Jack's version of "Shade of the Old Apple Tree," and I doubt if all of that is in the traditional way it is usually done. I even bought music for "Shade of the Old Apple Tree" without getting anything that is as funny as the way Jack does that song. "Sowing on the Mountain" is not a funny songs, but I think it is a song that people should know, like "San Francisco Bay Blues," which is one of the reasons that I bought this album. I don't listen to this every day, but this music is solid. He picked these songs well.
JACK ELLIOTT IS AN AMERICAN ICON.......1999-11-18
I REGRET THAT I WAS FORTY YEARS OLD BEFORE I EVER HEARD RAMBLIN' JACK. I WAS USED TO LISTENING TO THE BEATLES, STONES, ETC. BUT JACK ELLIOTT KNOWS THE PROPER WAY TO DELIVER A SONG. A FRIEND OF WOODY GUTHRIES, HE LEARNED WELL. THIS ALBUM CONTAINS SONGS THAT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH, AND MAKE YOU CRY. HOW DOES HE PLAY THE GUITAR SO WELL? EAT YOUR HEART OUT CLAPTON, SANTANA, ETC. ETC. THIS ALBUM IS A MUST FOR ALL MUSICIANS AND ALL MUSIC LOVERS.
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- More is Less
- Folk Music
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- a keeper
- The RJE spectrum covered and surpassed
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Kerouac's Last Dream
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Appleseed Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000005BPH
Release Date: 1997-09-16 |
Tracks:
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
- Freight Train Blues
- Talkin' Fishin
- Roving Gambler
- Cuckoo
- Don't Think Twice
- Soldier's Last Letter
- 1913 Massacre
- Buffalo Skinners
- Nightherding Song
- Mean Mamma Blues
- I Threw It All Away
- Detour
- Riding Down Canyon
- Cup Of Coffee
- 912 Greens
Album Description
"Kerouac's Last Dream" is regarded as a definitive Ramblin' Jack Elliott CD, even by Ramblin' Jack, who says, "I think this album is better than any of my previous albums." It has also been also cited as his best-sounding recording prior to his 1995 Grammy-winning "Sun Coast." On this reissue of a rare 1980 German LP, with eight previously unreleased tracks added, Ramblin' Jack performs classic songs by his primary inspiration and early-'50s traveling companion, the late Woody Guthrie ("Pretty Boy Floyd," "Talkin' Fishin'," "1913 Massacre"), by a younger Guthrie acolyte, Bob Dylan ("Don't Think Twice," "I Threw It All Away"), by seminal country music artists Ernest Tubb ("Soldier's Last Letter") and Roy Acuff ("Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"), and some traditional folk standards ("Freight Train," "Roving Gambler," "Cuckoo," "Buffalo Skinners," and "Nightherding Song"). For good measure, there are even a couple of Elliott originals ("Cup of Coffee" and "912 Greens! "), always a rare commodity.
Performing solo on acoustic guitar and vocals, Elliott has assembled a showcase of timeless songs and unaffected delivery. As "the last of the Brooklyn cowboys," as Arlo Guthrie has called him, Elliott could be singing these songs at a lonely campfire after a hard day on the trail. Listeners are lucky to be within earshot.
Customer Reviews:
More is Less.......2007-06-20
After reading the Amazon description above, with Ramblin' Jacks testimony about this recording, I bought it -- and found it a letdown. I first heard this consummate singer / guitarist forty years ago, beginning with Hard Travelin', which is a masterpiece. At his best, Elliott is a master of the dramatic subtleties of singing-guitar picking performance, and his skills on both sides of his musical coin are way up there. Even on this CD, which I wasn't so crazy about, his guitar sounds unbelievable, and his voice hasn't lost its appeal. So what am I complaining about? Jack got too creative with his material during this period, substituting a Richie Havens type of guitar style for the amazing fingerpicking of his early years, and his phrasing as a singer is often emotionally unconvincing and just over the top. Compare the Woody Guthrie songs on this CD with those on Hard Travelin', or the newer version of "912 Greens" (a BIG letdown) with the gem of a performance on Young Brigham. The reference to Jack Kerouac also seemed gratuitous, although Elliot was part of that "beatnik" scene in the late fifties and early sixties. But there are still some good songs here; "Don't Think Twice" by his old friend Bob Dylan is one of the highlights, and "Buffalo Skinners" is really hair-raising!
Folk Music.......2007-01-04
There certainly is a theme included in this collection by Jack. He played a live show here in Sacramento and I missed it, but this Music set lets you feel his soul as well and I'm happy with it. It is listenable through several "encores" before I put it aside.
Equal parts brilliant, good, and so-so..........2006-05-20
Which means it is a pretty typical Jack Elliot recording. This one, made in 1980 in Germany but not released in the USA until 1997, lasts 70 minutes, so by my lights, about 46 of those minutes are worth repeated play. What I did not like much is the ten-minute talk/story piece that concludes it, "912 Greens", and his versions of "Night Herding Song" and "Buffalo Skinners" (which I never liked by any artist.) In the "so-so" group are the songs "Cuckoo" and "Soldier's Last Letter" (written by Ernest Tubb, the mid-20th century country star.)
But the good outweighs the not-so-good on this CD: Jack's versions of "Pretty Boy Floyd" and "Freight Train Blues" and "Roving Gambler" and "Don't Think Twice, I'm Alright" and "1913 Massacre" are all near-wonderful, and his rendition of "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" is perhaps second only to Willie Nelson's, in my experience...and that's a country classic covered by just about everybody since the '50's.
Elliott's 1980's voice is more robust than on his mid-1990's releases on the HighTone label, if a bit more weathered than what you hear on his late '50's and early 60's products. His guitar-picking on this album is a welcome highlight.
Folk fans who don't already know Jack Elliott's work, and his role in the end of Woody Guthrie's career and the start of Bob Dylan's, likely are not reading this review...but if you are new to Jack, this recording is not a bad one to own. If you are already a fan, but haven't heard this disc, you will certainly want it. Jack's voice has never been as good as his friend Cisco Houston's, who remains to me the premier interpreter of Woody's songs (with Arlo coming in third to Jack himself) but lots of people prefer his singing and pickin' to Woody's.
a keeper.......2005-09-10
This album is a unique Ramblin Jack album from many vantage points, one being the era (1980) in which Jack recorded it over in Germany... Jack was in the midst of a 25 year hiatus from studio's, in that (between 1970 and 1995's South Coast), Jack toured relentlessly, worked on sailboats, rambled, toured, toured and toured but did not record an album)... this was recorded in Germany and released in America 17 years later... it captures the Jack in between the young Jack that lived/travelled with Woody Guthrie, was friends with Kerouak, tutored a young Dylan, played all over Europe alone and with Derroll Adams on banjo, introduced Kris to Janis, toured w/ the Rolling Thunder review ---- with the Jack we know today that has re-emmerged with several great albums over the late 90's and tours around the west coast today hanging with the likes of former Beachboys and Deadheads and Cowboys and poets.... think Jack in a dungeon with his guitar and just singin' a lot of the songs we all know him to sing.... plus a great version of Jacks own '912 Greens' ("...here come this.. blue car.. i think it was a plymouth--") and Cup've Coffee, and an excellent version of Cuckoo and a touching Soldiers Last Letter and, really, just outstanding versions of all these tunes.... i could write a review on all Ramblin Jack's albums, but i'll choose this one for several reasons as noted mostly above.. it's a great album, i've been looking for the original, vinyl version in Europe for some years now, and i'll find it some day....
The RJE spectrum covered and surpassed.......2004-07-30
I have never been quite so astounded as when this record began. As someone who has heard several old-time versions of 'Pretty Boy Floyd', I couldn't quite comprehend how Elliott had re-styled and stripped down the song until it was totally him and his. Of course, in hindsight, I should have known what to expect from Elliott.
I was given no time to recover from this masterpiece as the opening chords of Roy Acuff's 'Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain' sounded. Hold up. Two slices of perfection? I wasn't ten minutes into the album and it was already the best I'd ever heard. By anybody.
As the album progressed, I began to realise that every one of the 17 tracks was a gem, superbly crafted, faultlessly delivered, and impossibly polished.
The highlights are extensive. An incredible turn on 'Roving Gambler' is followed by the excellent 'Cuckoo', made to Elliott's specfications by including several maverick stanzas to keep you guessing. In 'Don't Think Twice' and 'I Threw It All Away', Elliott tips his hat to his former student, Bob Dylan, and slyly outdoes him to boot.
Best-ever versions of '1913 Massacre' and 'The Buffalo Skinners' will set the heart and mind racing, and there is a trademark comical turn in 'Mean Mamma Blues'.
But just as you think Elliott may be easing off to wind down the collection with a soulful 'Riding Down Canyon', he brings out two self-penned classics.
'Cup Of Coffee' is a wonderfully vivid and mischievous illustration of Elliott undertaking one of his many pastimes, driving trucks. To many RJE fans, this song is at best a one-trick pony and at worst a self-indulgent gabble. I say its some of the most entertaining talking blues you'll hear.
But, try as it might, nothing on this record can prepare you for its ten-minute finale. Elliott brings out the song Jackson Browne described as "a time travelling, spoken-word masterpiece", in '912 Greens'. Elliott teases the distinctive, haunting backing for the song with such care and power that by the time he eventually, almost alarmingly speaks you are ready to break down and cry.
I have never been one for lengthy albums or indeed lengthy songs, but this record is the best I've heard in any genre, and its length and content is nothing short of perfect.
"...Here come this little blue car..."
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- Essential
- Very Good Cd That You Should Buy!
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Hard Travelin'
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Fantasy
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000000XFB
Release Date: 1991-10-17 |
Tracks:
- Hard Travelin'
- Grand Coulee Dam
- New York Town
- Tom Joad
- Howdido
- Talking Dust Bowl
- This Land Is Your Land
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Philadelphia Lawyer
- Talking Columbia
- Dust Storm Disaster
- Riding In My Car
- 1913 Massacre
- So Long
- Sadie Brown
- East Virginia Blues
- I Belong To Glasgow
- The Cuckoo
- Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
- South Coast
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- The Last Letter
- Candyman
- Tramp On The Street
- Railroad Bill
Customer Reviews:
Essential.......2005-11-16
I'm the proud owner of the original "Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie" vinyl LP, on the tiny Prestige label out of Bergenfield, NJ. I just picked up this gem for $20 at a record shop in Brooklyn. This is a great cover album; Elliott's voice captures the spirit of Woody on "So Long," "Talkin' Columbia," and "Pretty Boy Floyd." Any Guthrie collector should run out and buy this CD, they won't be disappointed.
Very Good Cd That You Should Buy!.......2004-02-04
This is a good cd that you should buy. Jack does some great guitar playing on this album and the liner notes are very good. The first 14 songs are by Woody W. Guthrie and the rest are by other folks. There are some really good songs on this cd. Grand Coulee Dam, So Long It's Been Good To Know You, Candy Man, Railroad Bill ect. they blow me away every time I hear them. This is a cd any Woody Guthrie or Ramblin Jack fan's gotta have!
Gold-Plated Woody Guthrie Tracks.......2002-03-01
In 1960, after half a decade in European exile and threatened by the approach of his 30th birthday, perhaps drawn as well by the myth of the Kennedy Camelot on his native shores, Ramblin' Jack Elliott began preparing to return home. Fortunately for fans, the grand master of American folk music, Elliott, landed squarely in the lap of Prestige/International, then the East Coast bellwether label for folk and jazz. On his first exploratory expedition back home, he cut 14 legendary tracks by his ailing mentor Woody Guthrie, whose performing career already had been cut short by Huntingdon's Chorea. The legendary album that resulted was "Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie." In June 1961, after returning to the U.S. to stay, he cut another dozen tracks released by Prestige on the LP "Ramblin' Jack Elliott." With the absence only of Ray Charles' "I Love Her So/I Got a Woman," these first two Prestige albums are combined on this CD. The two later 1962 Prestige releases are featured on Fantasy's "Country Style/Live" CD. The Guthrie album was and is worth its weight in gold, enhanced considerably by accompinent not only from Elliot's guitar and mouth harp virtuosity but also by an unnamed country group with fiddle et al, a well-played musical suit followed by Elliott's late friend and fellow Guthrie protegé Cisco Houston for Vanguard three years later. The CD offers a number of Guthrie jewels not found easily elsewhere in Ramblin' Jacks's discography - works like "Tom Joad," "This Land is Your Land" and "Philadelphia Lawyer." In both albums on this combined CD one hears a young but very substantial Ramblin' Jack, making up to some extent in vitality for the still-lacking depth of prime vintage found in his 1980s and 1990s releases of works like "The Cuckoo" or "South Coast." The latter, a Lilian Bos Ros song from the Blacklist days, is best known from the Kingston Trio's "Hungry i" album. Ramblin' Jack spent a long time learning it, doing a yeoman's job in his young days on this CD, teaching it to Doc Watson along the way and then finally defining it for all time on his Grammy winning album of the same name in 1995. It's hard to picture anyone regretting paying the price for Fantasy's re-release of this legendary music.
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Ramblin' Jack Elliott , Bob Dylan , Johnny Cash , and Woody Guthrie
Manufacturer: Vanguard Records
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ASIN: B00004UETH
Release Date: 2000-08-15 |
Tracks:
- Introduction By Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash
- Muleskinner Blues
- Cuckoo
- Hard Travelin'
- Railroad Bill
- Buskin'
- Pastures Of Plenty
- Rake & Ramblin' Boy
- San Fransisco Bay Blues
- Candy Man/Talkin' Sailor Blues
- Acne
- Don't Think Twice
- Take Me Home
- If I Were A Carpenter
- Car Song
- 900 Miles (Odetta)
- Cup Of Coffee
- Introduction By President Clinton
- 1913 Massacre
- Cuckoo (Reprise)
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This is an above-average soundtrack to a revelatory documentary about folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott, made by his daughter Aiyana Elliott with Dick Dahl. Now any time one reads about this Ramblin' Jack Elliott character, it has to somewhere state that Elliott is "the link between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan." And there certainly is truth to this--he was the last traveling companion of Guthrie and taught Dylan much about folk music. Two of the most interesting cuts on the disc are "Hard Travelin," sung with Guthrie (the first known recording of the two together, discovered while preparing the CD) and "Acne," a playful, previously unheard doo-wop parody with Dylan recorded live on the radio in 1961. The duet with Johnny Cash is rough but pretty great too. But the real import of this disc (and film) is to show Ramblin' Jack as a distinctive, itinerant musician firmly at the center of folk-music history. When he toured the U.K. in the 1950s he single-handedly introduced traditional American folk stylings to a nation wrapped up in the whiffy-twee fad of skiffle music. His nimble flatpicking, strong voice, and unstoppable storytelling are in evidence on his covers of songs by Tim Hardin, Jesse Fuller, and Guthrie. All the rare and unreleased cuts make Ballad a no-brainer choice for die-hard folkies. For neophytes who can stand audio quality that leans toward the archival, the disc also stands as the finest introduction yet to R.J.E.'s entire oeuvre. --Mike McGonigal
Customer Reviews:
Ramblin' Jack, great American.......2000-10-03
Ramblin' Jack Elliott's recorded output has been as wild, woolly, and uneven as the man himself, but this retrospective -- capturing him through a long career from the young, Guthrie-besotted singer/guitarist to his present status as revered elder statesman of American folk music -- is simply wonderful. The duet with Woody Guthrie on "Railroad Bill" (not "Hard Travelin" as the Amazon review has it) is itself worth the price of the disc. It is one of Guthrie's last recording sessions, moving for that but musically appealing as well. Elliott's astonishingly affecting reading of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice," like so much of his distinctly finite repertoire, has been recorded before, but its reappearance here is no less welcome for that. Late in life, through the documentary for which this is the soundtrack and through sheer perseverance, Ramblin' Jack steps out of the long shadows cast on him by Guthrie and Dylan -- the first the man from whom he learned, the other the boy whom he taught -- and proves himself, for yet one more time, to be indispensable, a personality different from but as uniquely American as Guthrie's. Over the years I've heard a lot of Ramblin' Jack records, but I'm hard-pressed to think of one as thoroughly engaging, and as fully satisfying, as this one. Miss it at your own peril.
50 Years of Ramblin' Jack in The American Century.......2000-08-18
Ramblin' Jack has outdown himself, or lets say his daughter has by putting together this collection, the choices, and the voices along the way. This is true Ramblin' Jack, capturing him at various stops in more than 45 years of recording. The duet with a young Bob Dylan is a rarity. The 1998 versions of great Ramblin' Jack often performed songs (this time live at New York's Bottom Line) such as "1913 Massacre" and "Don't Think Twice" along with songs captured at the 1998 Elko, Nevada Cowboy Poetry Festival, "If I were A Carpenter" and "Cuckoo" are among the best he has ever done. This sound track to the film documentary now at theatres (read Stephen Holden's fascinating review in the Wednesday, August 16, New York Times) produced by Alyana Elliott is a must for anyone interested in folk music, or American music, in the 20th century. If you have never heard of Ramblin' Jack, now is the time. If you are already a fan, this is yours. What were we doing last century? Listen to Ramblin' Jack, it will help you in the 21st Century.
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack.......2000-08-16
Ramblin' Jack Elliott is a living American legend, and "true music" doesn't get any better than this album. Spanning a lifetime of experiences with some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, Jack's impact on the music world is unmistakeable. His music will remain forever young.
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Young Brigham
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00005J6ZB
Release Date: 2001-06-12 |
Tracks:
- If I Were A Carpenter
- Talking Fisherman
- Tennessee Stud
- Night Herding Song
- Rock Island Line
- Danville Girl
- 912 Greens
- Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
- Connection
- Goodnight Little Arlo
Product Description
1. If I Were A Carpenter
2. Talking Fisherman
3. Tennessee Stud
4. Night Herding Song
5. Rock Island Line
6. Danville Girl
7. 912 Greens
8. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
9. Connection
10. Goodnight Little Arlo
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
One of his best.......2001-06-23
It would be another good selection of songs done in the Guthrie style with Jack's fine guitar work if not for two things. His version of the Rolling Stones' "Connection" which is done deadpan and guaranteed to get a smile or two. Then the original version of "912 Greens". A rambling talking blues that sounds like something out of a chorus of Kerouac's "Mexico City Blues". Nothing happens and everything happens. The record had a good size cult following and is a wonderful uptempo presentation of Elliot's warmth as a performer. "Did you ever stand and shiver, just because you were looking at a river?"
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- Quintessential Jack Elliot...singin', pickin' and talkin'...
- Quintessential Jack Elliot...singin', pickin' and talkin'...
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Bull Durham Sacks and Railroad Tracks
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Collector's Choice
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00005J6ZC
Release Date: 2001-06-12 |
Tracks:
- Me And Bobby McGee
- Folsom Prison Blues
- Find A Reason To Believe
- I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
- Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
- Lay, Lady, Lay
- Girl From The North Country
- The Tramp On The Street
- Michigan Water Blues
- Don't You Leave Me Here
- Blue Mountain
- With God On Our Side
Product Description
1. Me And Bobby McGee
2. Folsom Prison Blues
3. Find A Reason To Believe
4. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
5. Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
6. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
7. Lay, Lady, Lay
8. Girl From The North Country
9. Tramp On The Street, The
10. Michigan Water Blues
11. Don't You Leave Me Here
12. Blue Mountain
13. With God On Our Side
Format: CD
Customer Reviews:
Quintessential Jack Elliot...singin', pickin' and talkin'..........2002-10-22
If you have an interest in Ramblin' Jack when he was at the top of his game as the mentee of Woody and a mentor of Dylan, get ahold of this 1970 release, originally an LP on the Reprise label. There are Woody songs, there are rappin' segments, there are a couple of selections that made sense only to Jack, and there are about five performances here which are dynamite, including Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee." Earlier Elliot albums are available, and so are later ones, all the way up to a couple of years ago, but this is the Ramblin' Jack of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, the guy who was just beginning to earn the "elder statesman" designation. I bought this when it was brand new, but I enjoy it more now than I did then. Jack always was unique and cantankerous and inconsistent...much like Woody himself. He doesn't appeal to everybody, but if if you do like him, this is one of his most interesting releases.
Quintessential Jack Elliot...singin', pickin' and talkin'..........2002-10-22
If you have an interest in Ramblin' Jack when he was at the top of his game as the mentee of Woody and a mentor of Dylan, get ahold of this 1970 release, originally an LP on the Reprise label. There are Dylan songs, there are rappin' segments, there are a couple of selections that made sense only to Jack, and there are about five performances here which are dynamite, including Kristofferson's "Me and Bobby McGee." Earlier Elliot albums are available, and so are later ones, all the way up to a couple of years ago, but this is the Ramblin' Jack of Dylan's Rolling Thunder Review, the guy who was just beginning to earn the "elder statesman" designation. I bought this when it was brand new, but I enjoy it more now than I did then. Jack always was unique and cantankerous and inconsistent...much like Woody himself. He doesn't appeal to everybody, but if if you do like him, this is one of his most interesting releases.
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- Friends of Mine and Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- The old guy can still come through...
- Elliott further establishes himself as a vital link in folk
- Good but mixed
- hard to define
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Friends of Mine
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Hightone Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000005Z1N
Release Date: 1998-03-17 |
Tracks:
- Ridin' Down The Canyon
- Me And Billy The Kid
- Last Letter
- Louise
- Rex's Blues
- Walls Of Red Wing
- Hard Travellin'
- He Was A Friend Of Mine
- Dark As A Dungeon
- Friend Of The Devil
- Reason To Believe - Ramblin' Elliot Jack
- Bleeker Street Blues - Ramblin' Elliot Jack
- Old Time Feelin' - Ramblin' Elliot Jack
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The spirit of Woody Guthrie lives on in Ramblin' Jack Elliot, a folk legend in his own right who got his start in the late '40s. A half century later, Elliott still lives in a parallel universe where Dylan (a one-time student of his) refused to go electric and Elvis never mattered. Friends of Mine is a collection of low-fi duets with Emmylou Harris, Tom Waits, John Prine, Rosalie Sorrels, and Bob Weir. But the album isn't so much about Elliott's famous pals as it is about songs that refuse to die: Joe Ely's "Me and Billy the Kid," Dylan's "The Walls of Red Wing," and even more grizzled standards like "Hard Travelin'" and "Riding Down the Canyon." Stripped of the Dead's hippie caravan, even "Friend of the Devil" sounds like something two itinerant musicians might have played on a '20s street corner. The only misstep is the shamelessly sentimental "Bleeker Street Blues." Written by Elliott when he heard Dylan was ailing in 1997, it exists mostly for the names it drops: Joni Mitchell, Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, and even that avatar of folk, Eddie Van Halen. --Keith Moerer
Customer Reviews:
Friends of Mine and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.......2006-02-26
This is Jack Elliot at his best -- reminiscing through song. What is special about this CD is that it includes Ramblin' Jack with his friends and folk artists Arlo Guthrie, Peter Rowan, Tom Waits, Emmylou Harris & Nanci Griffith, John Prince, Bob Weir, Jerry Jeff Walker and John Prine. All of this on one CD!
Friends of Mine makes a great gift for the folk music lover in your life.
The old guy can still come through..........2001-12-16
Most who would be reading this review already know that Jack has been more famous for his friendships than for his own performances. Woody's last protege, Dylan's first personal mentor, and all that. But in this recent album, he shows he can still create moments that are deeply touching. "Walls of Redwing" and "Rex's Blues" are the gems here...I listened to them over and over and over the first couple of months I owned the disc. There are three or four other fine selections as well, and then there are the misfires..."Me and Billy the Kid" and "Last Letter" and "Bleeker Street" didn't work for me. I bought this on impulse because I didn't even realize Jack was still making records, and I had not bought one of his albums since about l970. Despite it being a mixed bag, I don't regret paying full price for "Friends of Mine." What's good on here won't ever be done better by anyone...and what isn't great is still interesting. A new RJE fan should buy the reissues of his early work...but if you are in the upper 50's like me, and remember the birth of the folk revival in l957-58, it is kind of a kick to buy Jack's album and savor the fact that he has survived and still turns out good work.
Elliott further establishes himself as a vital link in folk.......2001-06-07
We should all be lucky enough to have Jerry Jeff Walker, Emmylou Harris and Tom Waits for friends. We should all lucky enough to have lived and toured with Woody Guthrie or influenced Bob Dylan early in his career. And while most of us can't count these among our personal experiences, we're blessed to share them through the life and music of Ramblin' Jack Elliot.
As a human confluence of forty years of people, places, and songs, Elliot draws from a bottomless well of experience in this series of duets. He recalls his earliest influence with Guthrie's "Hard Travelin'," and his Greenwich Village days with Dylan's "He Was a Friend of Mine." He harmonizes with Rosalie Sorels ("Last Letter"), trades verses with John Prine ("Walls of Red Wing"), and blends his vocals with Tom Waits on the newly penned lament, "Louise." Emmylou Harris and Nanci Griffith help conjure the spirit of Townes Van Zandt on "Rex's Blues."
With his latest, Elliot once again proves himself a vital link in the chain of folk-music tradition.
Good but mixed.......2000-05-26
About half the songs are gems, the other half either don't seem to work. Falls pretty squarely in the traditional 'folk' category so fans won't be disappointed. Only a few of the collaborations seem to really bring the best out of both parties (Rex's Blues) while the others, unfortunately, seem muddled. A slightly more successful experiment like this was Rob Wasserman's Duets. First timers to Ramblin' Jack should probably try one of the other albums.
hard to define.......1999-12-07
This disc isn't exactly country, it isn't exactly western and it isn't exactly folk. It's a good buy, the only sour note comes from the last track; it isn't even a song.
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Ramblin' Jack
Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Topic Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000005917
Release Date: 1996-03-19 |
Tracks:
- Talking Columbia Blues
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Ludlow Massacre
- Talking Miner Blues
- Hard Travelling
- So Long, It's Been Good To Know You
- Talking Dustbowl Blues
- 1913 Massacre
- Rambling Blues
- Talking Sailor Blues
- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Ol' Riley
- The Boll Weevil
- New York Town
- Mule Skinner's Blues
- East Texas Talking Blues
- Dink's Song
- It's Hard, Ain't It Hard
- All Around The Water Tank
- Mother's Not Dead
- East Virginia Blues
- Danville Girl
- Rich And Rambling Boys
- Roll On Buddy
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- Great and Great Fun
- Jack
- A Bit Less Than the Best
- "The Lost Songs Of The Ramblin' Man"
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Best of the Vanguard Years
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Manufacturer: Vanguard Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B00004Z3VC
Release Date: 2000-10-31 |
Tracks:
- Roving Gambler
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
- Diamond Joe
- Guabi Guabi
- Sowing On The Mountain
- Roll On Buddy
- 1913 Massacre
- House Of The Rising Sun
- Shade Of The Old Apple Tree
- Black Snake Moan
- Portland Town
- More Pretty Girls
- Danville Girl
- John Hardy
- Dark As A Dungeon
- Hard Ain't It Hard
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
- I Got A Woman
- Railroad Bill
- I Never Will Marry
- At My Window
- Blue Eyed Elaine
- Wildwood Flower
- Ranger's Command
- Willie Moore
Amazon.com
First it was Woody Guthrie who cast a shadow over Ramblin' Jack Elliott's art. "He sounds more like me than I do," Woody once quipped. Now Elliott's own legend threatens to obscure his fine music. This 25-song set shows how forceful, even peerless (at least among the folkies), his singing and guitar playing could be. Because Elliott released only one album on Vanguard, this "best-of" includes the whole of that 1964 debut plus 13 previously unreleased tracks, making for less of a useful introduction and more of a fan's dream come true. Unreleased tracks include old folk songs such as "Danville Girl," "Diamond Joe," and "Blue Eyed Elaine." Elliott's ultratwangy, unapologetically aggressive style lends the stories a cinematic intensity--and a delightful, cutting humor. This set also reveals just how much Elliott shaped the repertoire, flatpicking, and vocal style of the young Bob Dylan (who, in the guise of Tedham Porterhouse, lends harmonica to Elliott's frenzied version of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"). As a portrait of the artist, these Vanguard recordings make clear just why Elliott remains so influential and revered. --Roy Kasten
Customer Reviews:
Great and Great Fun.......2006-03-01
If you want the genuine article in folk singers, Elliott's your man, and these are some of his best. He'll also make you laugh - "I Got a Woman" is worth the price of the album if you've got a sense of humor. As you can tell from that statement, Elliott doesn't necessarily confine himself to the folk genre. When you're the best there is at what you do, you can afford the risks. Don't pass up a chance to see him perform in person if he comes your way. If you're not familiar with him, watch "The Ballad of Rambling Jack" before you go so you have an appreciation for his place in the history of folk music in this country and an understanding of the man himself.
Jack.......2003-03-28
Jack Elliott is the last American troubador and this compliation shows why. He only wrote a few songs: his artistry -- live performance by performance -- is what sets him above all others. Mr. Zimmerman is a very good song writer... Jack, on the other hand, not only gave Woody Guthrie all of the credit, but also everyone else who's work he covered. The body of his work is a treasure beyond compare. (If only he could have consistenly showed up on time, perhaps he would have been legendary.)
A Bit Less Than the Best.......2003-02-26
One disagrees only reluctantly with another reviewer, but it simply is not true, that this CD offers "a great rare look at unreleased songs that Jack wrote while rambling around with Woody Guthrie!" There are, in fact, no songs at all that Ramblin' Jack wrote on this CD. RJE claims the authorship of precisely three numbers in the more than 50 years of his career: "912 Greens," "Cup of Coffee" and "Bleeker Street Blues." None of them are songs; all three are talking pieces. What is on this CD is a collection of traditional folk songs and works by such disparate folk, country and even rock musicians as Woody Guthrie, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Derroll Adams, Merle Travis, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, A.P. Carter and Ernest Tubb, all Vanguard studio recordings from 1964. The first 12 were released in the same year on vinyl on the LP Vanguard simply called "Jack Elliott." These same 12 songs also are available on Vanguard's "The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott," which is a better buy at a lower price. Please see my review of that album for my comments on these songs. The remaining 13 are outtakes from the same studio session, songs that Vanguard had not released until now. Of the 13, the highlights are Guthrie's "Hard, Ain't It Hard," Dylan's "Don't Think Twice," the Traditional "Railroad Bill," and Ray Charles' rock 'n' roll hit "I Got a Woman," also made famous to a certain extent by Elvis Presley. The first three of these four songs are the kind of solid music one expects from RJE, but all three are available in better performances on other RJE CDs. "I Got a Woman" is fun and interesting, but Ramblin' Jack's version is unlikely to add anything to the song's legacy or RJE's. In essence, one understands why these 13 first time releases were outtakes in 1964. They're all fine but as a whole, just a bit duller than most of his other vinyl work from these years. Of course, I wouldn't personally want to do without this CD, but then again, there are but a few RJE recordings I'm willing to have outside of my collection. If your interest is more casual, skip this CD and order "The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott" instead. It includes the best of this CD, and it goes one better by giving you the best of RJE's superlative April 30,1965 concert at New York City's Town Hall as well - at a better price.
"The Lost Songs Of The Ramblin' Man".......2002-07-03
Take a trip with me in 1913! For those new to RJE or looking for rare Ramblin' tunes, well look no further! This is a great rare look at unreleased songs that Jack wrote while rambling around with Woody Guthrie! This is such a great find and proud to own it! This completes my Ramblin' collection. Stay away from The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott CD! It only has 1/4 of what this CD offers! As Jack says, "I've got's to ramble!"
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