Jack Elliott (album)

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Jack Elliott
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Studio album by
Released1964
Genre Folk
Label Vanguard
Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology
Country Style
(1962)
Jack Elliott
(1964)
Young Brigham
(1968)

Jack Elliott is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1964. It was his only principal release on the Vanguard label.

Contents

Bob Dylan appears playing harmonica as "Tedham Porterhouse". [1]

Another album titled Jack Elliott was released by Everest Archive of Folk Music in the 1960s and has since been reissued on CD by Tradition / Rykodisc. It has a different track list.

Reception

Professional ratings
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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. wrote the album "...a listener doesn't have to check out but three or four tracks on Jack Elliott to find out what an original oddball he is... Jack Elliott manages to pay its respects to public domain material while still being entertaining." [2]

Reissues

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

Side one

  1. "Roving Gambler"
  2. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"
  3. "Diamond Joe"
  4. "Guabi Guabi" (a Zimbabwean love song originally recorded by George Sibanda which talks about love and gifts to his lover) [5]
  5. "Sowing on the Mountains"
  6. "Roll On Buddy"

Side two

  1. "1913 Massacre" (Woody Guthrie)
  2. "House of the Rising Sun"
  3. "Shade of the Old Apple Tree"
  4. "Black Snake Moan"
  5. "Portland Town" (Derroll Adams)
  6. "More Pretty Girls"

Personnel

Technical

References

  1. Searchin' for a Gem
  2. 1 2 Lankford, Jr., Ronnie D. "Jack Elliott > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 3, 2011.
  3. Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (June 5, 1965). "Jack Elliott: Jack Elliott" (PDF). Record Mirror . No. 221. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
  4. Allmusic entry for The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Accessed June 11, 2009.
  5. Azizi, Powell (May 4, 2013). "The REAL Meaning of The Song "Gwabi Gwabi" (Guabi Guabi)". pancocojams. Retrieved December 23, 2018.