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Ramblin' Jack Elliott (album)

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Released
  
December 1961

Label
  
Prestige/International

Genre
  
Folk

Producer
  
Kenneth S. Goldstein

Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1961)
  
Jack Elliott at the Second Fret (1962)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1961.

Contents

Ramblin' Jack Elliott in London was reissued in 1971 on the Marble Arch label also titled as Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

Reception

In a contemporary review, Paul Nelson of The Little Sandy Review called the album Elliott's "finest American recording." Writing for Allmusic, music critic Richie Unterberger wrote the album "A solidly traditional set of interpretations of standards."

Reissues

  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott was reissued along with Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie 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. "Sadie Brown" (Jack Elliott)
    2. "East Virginia Blues" (Carter)
    3. "I Belong to Glasgow" (William Fyffe)
    4. "The Cuckoo" (Traditional)
    5. "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" (Traditional)
    6. "South Coast" (Lillian Bos Ross)

    Side two

    1. "San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller)
    2. "The Last Letter" (Rex Griffin, Traditional)
    3. "I Love Her So/I Got a Woman" (Ray Charles)
    4. "Candy Man" (Reverend Gary Davis)
    5. "Tramp on the Street" (Grady Cole, Hazel Cole)
    6. "Railroad Bill" (Traditional)

    Personnel

  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, harmonica, guitar
  • John Herald – guitar
  • Ralph Rinzler – mandolin
  • Kenneth S. Goldstein – producer
  • Rudy Van Gelder - recording and mastering
  • Esmond Edwards - photography

    • References

    Ramblin' Jack Elliott (album) Wikipedia
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