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The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Ramblin' Jack Elliott
1 disc

1. Roving Gambler
2. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
3. Diamond Joe
4. Guabi Guabi
5. Sowing on the Mountain
6. Roll on Buddy
7. 1913 Massacre
8. House of the Rising Sun
9. Shade of the Old Apple Tree
10. Black Snake
11. Portland Town
12. More Pretty Girls
13. San Francisco Bay Blues
14. Buffalo Skinners
15. Sadie Brown
16. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
17. Blind Lemon Jefferson
18. Ramblin' Round Your City
19. Talkin' Columbia
20. Tennessee Stud
21. Night Herding Song
22. Love Sick Blues
23. I Belong to Glascow
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Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 89/90
Credits

Producer Maynard Solomon
Engineer
Solo performer: Ramblin' Jack Elliott (vocals, acoustic guitar).
Tracks 13-23 were recorded live at Town Hall, New York, New York on April 30, 1965.
Ramblin' Jack is a key figure in the development of American folk music, a link between Woody Guthrie and Guthrie disciple Bob Dylan. Like Dylan, Ramblin' Jack was a young Jewish folksinger in love with the idea of the dust bowl balladeer, changing his name (from Adnopoz to Elliott) and adopting a Guthrie-esque persona. He went a step further than the younger Dylan by traveling around with Guthrie. Unlike Dylan, Elliott always stuck close to the traditional folk style, as heard on this definitive, lengthy (originally a double album) collection.
With a weathered, earthy voice and considerable fingerpicking skills, he tackles a program of traditional folk and blues, providing a template that would be expanded by Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, and others. The second half of the disc, taken from a 1965 concert before an appreciative folk revival-happy audience, comes full circle by including a version of Dylan's "Dont Think Twice, It's All Right," which sounds perfectly at home amid the traditional material.