Ramblin\' Jack Elliott Kerouac\'s Last Stand (folk)(mp3@320)[rogercc][h33t]

Ramblin Jack Elliott Keroucs Last Dream
Released : 1981
Label : Folkfreak}
Re Issued : 1997
Label : Appleseed
Format : [email protected]


Re Issue Cover (1997)
Contains additional tracks/outtakes to Folkfreak original issue


Original Cover (1981) This issue includes 1 track not on re issue (Carpenter?)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott borrowed from Woody Guthrie's folk stylings long before Bob Dylan did. Elliott is one of the most longstanding artists in the folk realm. He was first inspired to pick up a guitar and teach himself to play when he ran away from home at the age of fifteen to join a traveling carnival. He stumbled upon a singing rodeo clown and soon realized that he wanted to play guitar and sing. He befriended the inspirational Guthrie and even traveled with him. Elliott's folk style is different from Guthrie's in that much like his regular discourse, the narratives of Elliott's songs branch out into patchwork quilts of stories and rich accounts of hoboing as well as witty working-class yarns. His nickname was given to him by the mother of fellow folkie Odetta, who after meeting him for the first time remarked, "That Jack Elliott, he sure can ramble.?

In his liner notes, Elliott writes ""I have been asked, sometimes, why I don't learn new songs. These are old ones and I have sung them for a long time. They are good and I think they shall always be good."

Tracklist :
01. Pretty Boy Floyd ( 4:04)
02. Blue Eyes Cring In The Rain ( 3:16)
03. Freight Train Blues ( 3:48 )
04. Talkin' Fishin' ( 3:40)
05. Roving Gambler ( 3:56)
06. Cuckoo ( 3:42)
07. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right ( 3:43)
08. Soldier's Last Letter ( 3:09)
09. 1913 Massacre ( 5:06)
10. Buffalo Skinners ( 5:18 )
11. Nightherding Song ( 2:55)
12. Mean Mamma Blues ( 2:27)
13. I Threw It All Away ( 2:39)
14. Detour ( 2:15)
15. Riding Down Canyon ( 5:36)
16. Cup Of Coffee ( 4:17)
17. 912 Greens (10:11)

Recorded 24th and 25th April 1980
at Tonstudio St. Blasien, Northeim – West Germany