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Ramblin' Jack Elliott - The Ballad Of Ramblin' Jack (2000)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott - The Ballad Of Ramblin' Jack (2000)

BAND/ARTIST: Ramblin' Jack Elliott

  • Title: The Ballad Of Ramblin' Jack
  • Year Of Release: 2000
  • Label: Vanguard Records
  • Genre: Folk, Soundtrack
  • Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
  • Total Time: 00:59:38
  • Total Size: 142; 297 MB
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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."

Tracklist:
1 01. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Introduction By Johnny Cash (00:25)
1 02. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Muleskinner Blues (05:04)
1 03. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Cuckoo (Live At The Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, NV / 1998) (02:29)
1 04. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Hard Travelin' (01:44)
1 05. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Railroad Bill (03:31)
1 06. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Buskin' (00:32)
1 07. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Pastures Of Plenty (02:43)
1 08. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Rake & Ramblin' Boy (02:45)
1 09. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - San Francisco Bay Blues (02:05)
1 10. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Candy Man / Talkin' Sailor Blues (04:50)
1 11. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Acne (03:24)
1 12. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (03:38)
1 13. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Take Me Home (03:06)
1 14. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - If I Were A Carpenter (04:49)
1 15. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Car Song (01:05)
1 16. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - 900 Miles (Odetta) (03:58)
1 17. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Cup Of Coffee (04:46)
1 18. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Introduction By President Clinton (00:30)
1 19. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - 1913 Massacre (04:28)
1 20. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Cuckoo (03:39)

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  • whiskers
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