The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2000-08-15
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- Mule Skinner Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Rodgers, Jimmie [1]
- Cuckoo - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Traditional
- Hard Travelin' - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Guthrie, Woody
- Railroad Bill - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Traditional
- Buskin' - Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
- Pastures of Plenty - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Guthrie, Woody
- Rake and Ramblin' Boy - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Adams, Derroll
- San Francisco Bay Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Fuller, Jesse
- Candy Man/Talkin' Sailor Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Davis, Gary [1]
- Acne - Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
- Don't Think Twice, It's All Right - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Dylan, Bob
- Take Me Home - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Clement, Jack
- If I Were a Carpenter - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Hardin, Tim
- Car Song - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Guthrie, Woody
- 900 Miles - Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
- Cup of Coffee - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Elliott, Ramblin' J
- Introduction - Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
- 1913 Massacre - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Guthrie, Woody
- Cuckoo (Reprise) - Ramblin' Jack Elliott,
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Free Music Review: Ramblin' Jack, great American
Hit: 5 Stars
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.
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack Poster
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 McGonigalClassic Rock Music CDs
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