South Coast (album)

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South Coast
South Coast Jack Elliott.jpg
Studio album by
Released1995
Genre Folk
Length43:26
Label Red House
Producer Bob Feldman
Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology
Kerouac's Last Dream
(1981)
South Coast
(1995)
Friends of Mine
(1998)

South Coast is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1995. It was his first new studio release in over 20 years.

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At the Grammy Awards of 1996, South Coast won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album.

The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording.

Reception

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Writing for Allmusic, music critic Burgin Matthews wrote the album "Elliott also reveals himself as one of the few truly enduring figures of the folk era, partly because his music is more honest, and as a result more timeless, than so much of that era's music... With South Coast, Elliott's legend is irrevocably cemented." [1]

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Track listing

  1. "Pastures of Plenty" (Woody Guthrie) – 2:46
  2. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin) – 5:00
  3. "Cocaine Blues" (Reverend Gary Davis) – 2:29
  4. "I Ain't Got No Home" (Guthrie) – 2:07
  5. "Will James" (Ian Tyson) – 2:16
  6. "The Buffalo Skinners (On the Trail of the Buffalo)" (Traditional) – 5:24
  7. "Rake and Ramblin' Boy" (Derroll Adams) – 2:26
  8. "South Coast" (Lillian Bos Ross) – 7:53
  9. "Talkin' Dust Bowl" (Guthrie) – 3:03
  10. "Mean Old Bed Bug Blues" (Joe Davis) – 3:23
  11. "Ludlow Massacre" (Guthrie) – 4:25
  12. "San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller) – 2:14

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Matthews, Burgin. "South Coast > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 2, 2011.