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Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie

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Released
  
1960

Artist
  
Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Label
  
77 Records

Producer
  
Kenneth S. Goldstein

Release date
  
1960

Genre
  
Folk music

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Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie(1960)
  
Songs to Grow On by Woody Guthrie, Sung by Jack Elliott(1961)

Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1960. It consists of songs written or well known as performed by Woody Guthrie.

Contents

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Richie Unterberger called the album "the recording that is most representative of his role in popularizing the work of his hero."

Reissues

  • Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie was reissued along with Ramblin' Jack Elliott in 1989 as a double LP on the Fantasy label as Hard Travelin'. It was reissued on CD in 1991 with "I Love Her So/I Got a Woman" omitted.

    • Side one

    1. "Hard Traveling"
    2. "Grand Coulee Dam"
    3. "New York Town"
    4. "Tom Joad"
    5. "Howdido"
    6. "Talking Dust Bowl"
    7. "This Land is Your Land"

    Side two

    1. "Pretty Boy Floyd"
    2. "Philadelphia Lawyer"
    3. "Talking Columbia"
    4. "Dust Storm Disaster"
    5. "Riding in My Car"
    6. "1913 Massacre"
    7. "So Long"

    Personnel

  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, harmonica, guitar
  • Rudy Van Gelder - recording and mastering

    • Songs

    1John Henry
    2Talking Blues
    3San Francisco Blues

    References

    Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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