Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Birth name | Elliott Charles Adnopoz |
Born | New York City, U.S. | August 1, 1931
Genres | Folk music |
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Website | www |
Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer and songwriter and musician.[1]
Life and career
Elliott was born in 1931 in
Elliott was with them for only three months before his parents tracked him down and had him sent home, but he had been exposed to his first singing cowboy, Brahmer Rogers, a rodeo clown who played guitar and five-string banjo, sang songs, and recited poetry. Back home, Elliott taught himself guitar and started
Nobody I know—and I mean nobody—has covered more ground and made more friends and sung more songs than the fellow you're about to meet right now. He's got a song and a friend for every mile behind him. Say hello to my good buddy, Ramblin' Jack Elliott.[3]
Johnny Cash, The Johnny Cash Television Show, 1969
With banjo player Derroll Adams, he toured the United Kingdom and Europe. By 1960, he had recorded three folk albums for the UK record label Topic Records. In London, he played small clubs and pubs by day and West End cabaret nightclubs at night. When he returned to the States, Elliott found he had become renowned in American folk music circles.
Woody Guthrie had the greatest influence on Elliott. Guthrie's son,
Elliott appeared in Dylan's 1975-1976 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour,[1] and played "Longheno de Castro" in Dylan's movie Renaldo and Clara accompanied by guitarist Arlen Roth. In the movie, he sings the song "South Coast" by Lillian Bos Ross and Sam Eskin, from whose lyric the character's name is derived.[5] Elliott also appears briefly in the 1983 film Breathless, starring Richard Gere and directed by Jim McBride.
My name is Longheno de Castro
My father was a Spanish grandee
But I won my wife in a card game
To Hell with those lords o'er the sea
Elliott plays guitar in both a traditional flatpicking style and a traditional fingerpicking style, depending on the song, which he matches with his laconic, humorous storytelling, often accompanying himself on harmonica. His singing has a strained, nasal quality which the young Bob Dylan emulated. His repertoire includes American traditional music from various genres, including country, blues, bluegrass and folk.
Elliott's nickname comes not from his traveling habits, but rather the countless stories he relates before answering the simplest of questions. Folk singer Odetta claimed that her mother gave him the name, remarking, "Oh, Jack Elliott, yeah, he can sure ramble on!"
His image as a folksy, down-to-earth country boy, despite being a Jewish doctor's son from Brooklyn, and his disdain for other folk singers, were parodied in the fictional documentary A Mighty Wind in the character of a former member of the New Main Street Singers, Ramblin' Sandy Pitnick, a somewhat geeky-looking white man in a cowboy hat. The film's central band of folksingers, the Folksmen (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer), are said to have a scored a hit album called Ramblin'.
Elliott's first recording in many years, South Coast, earned him his first
His long career and strained relationship with his daughter Aiyana were chronicled in her 2000
At the age of 75, he changed labels and released
In 2012 he was featured on the song "Double Lifetime" on the album Older Than My Old Man Now by Loudon Wainwright III.
Elliott appeared with the Ramblin' Jackernacle Choir, adding vocals, yodels, hollers, to
Discography
Studio
- 1956: Woody Guthrie's Blues
- 1957: Jack Elliot Sings
- 1958: Jack Takes the Floor
- 1959: Ramblin' Jack Elliott in London EMI Records
- 1960: Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers
- 1960: Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie
- 1961: Songs to Grow On by Woody Guthrie, Sung by Jack Elliott (Folkways Records)
- 1961: Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Prestige/Folklore)
- 1962: Country Style (Prestige/Folklore)
- 1964: Jack Elliott (Vanguard)
- 1968: Young Brigham (Reprise)
- 1970: Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks (Reprise)
- 1981: Kerouac's Last Dream (Folk Freak/re-release by Conträr Musik, Germany)
- 1995: South Coast (Red House)
- 1998: Friends of Mine (HighTone)
- 1999: The Long Ride (HighTone)
- 2006: ANTI-)
- 2009: ANTI-)
Live
With Derroll Adams
- 1958: The Rambling Boys
- 1963: Roll On Buddy
- 1969: Folkland Songs
- 1969: Riding in Folkland
- 1975: America
Compilations
- 1963: Talking Woody Guthrie (Topic)
- 1964: Muleskinner (Topic)
- 1976: The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Vanguard)
- 1989: Hard Travelin' (reissue of Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
- 1989: Talking Dust Bowl: The Best of Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- 1990: Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Spider John Koerner, U. Utah Phillips: Legends of Folk (Red House)
- 1990: Jack Elliott Plus / Jack Elliott
- 1995: Me and Bobby McGee (reissue of Young Brigham and Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks)
- 1995: Jack Elliott: Ramblin' Jack, The Legendary Topic Masters
- 1999: Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Early Sessions
- 2000: Best of the Vanguard Years
- 2004: The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957
- 2004: The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957
- 2007: Vanguard Visionaries
- 2023: Ramblin' Jack Elliott – 100 Classic Recordings 1954-62 (Label: Acrobat – ACQCD 7174)
Additionally, Three Score and Ten, Topic Records' 70th-anniversary boxed set released in 2009, included "Talking Dustbowl Blues" from Woody Guthrie's Blues as track twelve on the seventh CD.
References
- ^ ISBN 1-85227-745-9.
- ^ Colonel Jim Eskew and his Wild West Show in Waverly, NY
- ^ "Spring Music - Ramblin' Jack Elliott". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved February 7, 2012.
- Chronicles, Vol. 1, pp 250-252
- ^ "South Coast" lyrics Archived 2010-12-05 at the Wayback Machine - Arlo.net, Arlo Guthrie's website
- ^ "49th annual Grammy nominations list — part 2". Variety. December 7, 2006. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
- ^ "Fall Music Preview 2016: 35 Must-Hear Albums". Rolling Stone. September 8, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2018.