Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Subject: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 10 Oct 22 - 03:28 AM

Article in the Rolling Stone

Enjoy :-)

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 10 Oct 22 - 05:55 AM

Davw,

Here is a radio clip from BBC in 1996 which just went up on You Tube yesterday


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZXgaFpHUiY

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 03:17 AM

Great version, Hootenanny. Thank you.

Do you know who the guitarist with the 12 string is in the photos?

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 04:05 AM

Yes,

That is Jesse Fuller the guy who wrote the song that Jack is singing "San Francisco Bay". Jesse was a one man band playing Guitar, harmonica, high hat cymbal and a self constructed foot operated bass which he called a Footdella. We have photographs of him playing at the 100 Club in London in the 60's. My workmate and very good friend George Webb escorted him around when he came over on tour and had a great fund of Jese Fuller stories.

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Oct 22 - 06:49 AM

Cool - Thanks again Hootenanny. Much appreciated :-)

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 04:54 AM

A very good perfomer a better guitarist than Dylan and he was popularising wWodys songs long before Dylan

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: David C. Carter
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 09:14 AM

I thought this thread was about Jack Elliott,not about the chance,by the usual suspect, to diss Dylan once again.It's getting borring.

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 09:25 AM

well it is about jack elliott, he was singing woodys songs and perfoming batter than Dylan; certainly a more proficient guitaristand imo a better singer
but he has not written any good songs
Dylan has written some good songs and a couple of bad ones but so do nearly all songwriters
Jack is 91 years old and still performing

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 09:25 AM

While Dylan was very much influenced by Woody early on he didn't record a lot of his tunes, didn't need to, he wrote his own, some of the best anyone's ever written. Rambling Jack was more of an interpereter of trad songs and other writer's works and is damn good at it. (Btw, Dylan and Jack weren't exactly contemporaries, Dylan came on the scene about a decade after Jack).

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 09:48 AM

Rambling Jack was the only one of my early musical heroes that I actually met. My girlfriend at the time and I had a few drinks with him after his last set at the Childe Harold in D.C. and he regaled us with tales of the shenanigans he got up to with the Grateful Dead and their crew on the Europe '72 tour from the year before. Being a couple of Deadheads it left us in a state of euphoria. He was a charming fellow.

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: Amergin
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 01:36 PM

I saw him a few years ago, when he opened for John Prine. Unfortunately, I can't tell you anything about the performance, because I couldn't hear it, and everytime I tried to get close so I could, I got yelled at by the staff. Zoo concerts here used to be alot of fun, but these days they ruin the experience.

Subject: RE: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 18 Oct 22 - 08:56 PM

article in New York Times:
At 91, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Still Wants to Tell You a Story
NY Times - Ramblin Jack Elliott
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/arts/music/ramblin-jack-elliott.html
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Thomas.