Vanguard Visionaries (Ramblin' Jack Elliott album)

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Vanguard Visionaries
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Compilation album by Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Released June 12, 2007
Genre Folk
Length32:41
Label Vanguard
Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology
I Stand Alone
(2006)
Vanguard Visionaries
(2007)
A Stranger Here
(2009)

Vanguard Visionaries is the title of a recording by American folk music artist Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 2007.

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Ramblin Jack Elliott American singer and guitarist

Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.

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History

Vanguard Records had a high profile during the 1960s folk revival and released music by many folk artists such as Doc Watson, Odetta, John Fahey and many others. To celebrate their 60th anniversary, Vanguard released a series of artist samplers called Vanguard Visionaries from the 1960s and early-'70s era.

Doc Watson American guitarist, songwriter and singer

Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues, and gospel music. Watson won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's fingerstyle guitar and flatpicking skills, as well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. He performed with his son, guitarist Merle Watson, for over 15 years until Merle's death in 1985 in an accident on the family farm.

Odetta American musician

Odetta Holmes, known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement". Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s, she influenced many of the key figures of the folk-revival of that time, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mavis Staples, and Janis Joplin. Time magazine included her recording of "Take This Hammer" on its list of the 100 Greatest Popular Songs, stating that "Rosa Parks was her No. 1 fan, and Martin Luther King Jr. called her the queen of American folk music."

John Fahey (musician) 1939–2001; American fingerstyle guitarist

John Aloysius Fahey was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who played the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been enormously influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitive Guitar, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music and its minimalist style. Fahey borrowed from the folk and blues traditions in American roots music, having compiled many forgotten early recordings in these genres. He would later incorporate 20th-century classical, Portuguese, Brazilian, and Indian influences into his work.

Reception

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Writing for Allmusic, music critic John Bush wrote of the album "Vanguard Visionaries, a ten-track compilation sans liner notes, can't possibly do more than scratch the surface of Ramblin' Jack Elliott's career. Still, it's true that Elliott recorded much great work on Vanguard, and there's no question that these songs... are among the best of his Vanguard work." [1]

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "1913 Massacre" (Woody Guthrie) – 3:49
  2. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" – 2:36
  3. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 3:16
  4. "John Hardy" – 2:26
  5. "Guabi Guabi" (Traditional, Jack Elliott) – 4:41
  6. "House of the Rising Sun" – 3:27
  7. "Black Snake Moan" – 3:25
  8. "Roving Gambler" – 3:33
  9. "Diamond Joe" – 2:56
  10. "I Got a Woman" – 2:32

Personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 Bush, John. "Vanguard Visionaries > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved July 3, 2011.