Ballad Of Ramblin' Jack (2000) ( )

Artist: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Product Summary
Label: Vanguard
UPC: 00015707957526
Release Date: 8/15/2000
Buy.com Sku: 60423975
Item#: MTPM69
Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Johnny Cash Intro ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
2. Muleskinner Blues ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
3. Cuckoo ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
4. Hard Travelin' ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
5. Railroad Bill - (with Woody Guthrie/Sonny Terry) ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
6. Buskin' ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
7. Pleasures Of Plenty ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
8. Rake and Ramblin' Boy - (with Derroll Adams) ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
9. San Francisco Bay Blues ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
10. Candy Man / Talking Sailor ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
11. Acne - (with Bob Dylan) ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
12. Don't Think Twice ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
13. Take Me Home - (with Johnny Cash) ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
14. If I Were A Carpenter ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
15. Car Song ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
16. 900 Miles - (with Odetta) ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
17. Cup of Coffee - (with Dee Brown/Bruce Bryant) ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
18. Bill Clinton Intro ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
19. 1913 Massacre ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott
20. Cuckoo - (reprise) ~ Ramblin' Jack Elliott



 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Includes liner notes by Dick Dahl & Aiyana Elliott.
Digitally remastered by Jeff Zaraya.
This soundtrack to the 2000 documentary film about Elliott (directed by his daughter) also serves as a pretty good career retrospective. The 20 cuts are taken from an assortment of live, studio, television, radio, and film performances from 1953 to 1998. The chief flaw of Elliott's output is that he was not an innovator. He wrote little of his own music (only one of the songs on this release is original), and his competent, homespun brand of folk was similar to, but not nearly as good as, Woody Guthrie's or early Bob Dylan's. The strength of Elliott's music, on the other hand, is that he sounded the same pretty much whenever he sang or recorded. If you liked traditional American folk at any time during the last half of the 20th century, Elliott was the old reliable, there to provide it for international audiences. So it's no surprise that this soundtrack is a consistent listen of engaging, if unremarkable, roots American folk music. Elliott sounds a lot better, of course, when he's performing duets with greater talents, and there are a number of such duets on this compilation, including performances on Johnny Cash's television show in the late '60s and early '70s; a 1953 studio cut with his mentor, Guthrie (also including Sonny Terry on harmonica and vocals); and a song apiece with Odetta and Derroll Adams. There's also a live 1961 radio airshot of a duet with a then label-less Bob Dylan on the silly, and not terribly witty, early rock & roll parody "Acne." ~ Richie Unterberger

Producer: Aiyana Elliott; Dick Dahl

 
Associated Artists and Works
California Dreams
Original Soundtrack
Original Soundtrack

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 08/15/2000
Original Release Date : 2000
Catalog ID : 79575
Label : Vanguard Records (USA)
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 58m : 38s
Studio/Live : Mixed
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00015707957526

 
Professional Reviews
CMJ (8/28/00, pp.24,31)
- "...Remarkable...Elliot may be the most important country-folk troubadour sandwiched in the wide chronological berth between Arlo Guthrie and Bob Dylan..."

  
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