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Country Style (album)

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Released
  
1962

Country Style (1962)
  
Jack Elliott (1964)

Release date
  
1962

Genre
  
Folk music

Producer
  
Kenneth S. Goldstein

Artist
  
Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Label
  
Fantasy Records

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Ramblin' Jack Elliott albums
  
Kerouac's Last Dream, The Lost Topic Tapes: Isl, Best of the Vanguard Years, Jack Elliott at the Second F, The Long Ride

Country Style is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1962.

Contents

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. wrote the album "On Country Style, one can see the rambling doctor's son come into his own as a performer... Elliott steps away from the past to carve out an irreverent, slap-happy style that showed that folk music, when handled without studious care, could be a helluva lot of fun... Country Style represents the first flowering of Elliott's talent and turning point for folk traditionalism."

Reissues

  • Country Style was reissued on CD by Fantasy Records in 1999 along with Jack Elliott at the Second Fret.

    • Track listing

    All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

    Side one

    1. "Mean Mama Blues" (Charles Mitchell, Moon Mullican)
    2. "Low and Lonely" (Fred Rose)
    3. "Wreck of the Old '97" (Henry Clay Work)
    4. "Old Shep" (Red Foley)
    5. "Wabash Cannonball" (A. P. Carter)
    6. "Brown Eyes"
    7. "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills)

    Side two

    1. "Arthritis Blues" (Butch Hayes)
    2. "Take Me Back and Love Me One More Time"
    3. "Tennessee Stud" (Jimmy Driftwood)
    4. "Those Brown Eyes" (Alan Arkin, Bill Carey, Erik Darling, Woody Guthrie)
    5. "Detour" (Paul Westmoreland)
    6. "Soldier's Last Letter" (Ernest Tubb, Redd Stewart)

    Personnel

  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, harmonica, guitar

    • Songs

    Mean Mama Blues1:54
    Low and Lonely1:51
    The Wreck of the Old 971:49

    References

    Country Style (album) Wikipedia
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