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This soundtrack to the 2000 documentary film about Elliott (directed by his daughter) also serves as a pretty good career retrospective. The 20 cuts are taken from an assortment of live, studio, television, radio, and film performances from 1953 to 1998. The chief flaw of Elliott's output is that he was not an innovator. He wrote little of his own music (only one of the songs on this release is original), and his competent, homespun brand of folk was similar to, but not nearly as good as, Woody Guthrie's or early Bob Dylan's. The strength of Elliott's music, on the other hand, is that he sounded the same pretty much whenever he sang or recorded. If you liked traditional American folk at any time during the last half of the 20th century, Elliott was the old reliable, there to provide it for international audiences. So it's no surprise that this soundtrack is a consistent listen of engaging, if unremarkable, roots American folk music. Elliott sounds a lot better, of course, when he's performing duets with greater talents, and there are a number of such duets on this compilation, including performances on Johnny Cash's television show in the late '60s and early '70s; a 1953 studio cut with his mentor, Guthrie (also including Sonny Terry on harmonica and vocals); and a song apiece with Odetta and Derroll Adams. There's also a live 1961 radio airshot of a duet with a then label-less Bob Dylan on the silly, and not terribly witty, early rock & roll parody "Acne."
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Woody Guthrie, MainArtist - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Bob Dylan, MainArtist - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Johnny Cash, MainArtist - Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
WOODIE GUTHRIE, ComposerLyricist - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist - Maynard Solomon, Producer
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records
Unknown, Composer - Ramblin' Jack Elliott, MainArtist
(C) 2000 Vanguard Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
Albumbeschreibung
This soundtrack to the 2000 documentary film about Elliott (directed by his daughter) also serves as a pretty good career retrospective. The 20 cuts are taken from an assortment of live, studio, television, radio, and film performances from 1953 to 1998. The chief flaw of Elliott's output is that he was not an innovator. He wrote little of his own music (only one of the songs on this release is original), and his competent, homespun brand of folk was similar to, but not nearly as good as, Woody Guthrie's or early Bob Dylan's. The strength of Elliott's music, on the other hand, is that he sounded the same pretty much whenever he sang or recorded. If you liked traditional American folk at any time during the last half of the 20th century, Elliott was the old reliable, there to provide it for international audiences. So it's no surprise that this soundtrack is a consistent listen of engaging, if unremarkable, roots American folk music. Elliott sounds a lot better, of course, when he's performing duets with greater talents, and there are a number of such duets on this compilation, including performances on Johnny Cash's television show in the late '60s and early '70s; a 1953 studio cut with his mentor, Guthrie (also including Sonny Terry on harmonica and vocals); and a song apiece with Odetta and Derroll Adams. There's also a live 1961 radio airshot of a duet with a then label-less Bob Dylan on the silly, and not terribly witty, early rock & roll parody "Acne."
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:31
- Main artists: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Vanguard Records
- Genre: Blues/country/folk Folk
© 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2000 Vanguard Records, a Welk Music Group Company
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