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The
legendary Ramblin' Jack Elliott gets a Grammy nomination. December
2006
Best Traditional Folk Album
Ramblin'
Jack Elliott, aged to perfection The
older Ramblin' Jack Elliott gets, the more he sounds like he has
always tried to sound. That is, weathered, world-weary,
swaggering, and maybe just a little bit dangerous if you crossed him.
Now a feisty 74, this folk icon has just made one of his best albums,
which, in a career spanning more than 20 records and 50 years, is
saying quite a bit. -- Elliott's
a ramblin' man, and his fans are much better for it Ramblin'
Jack Elliott isn't just a folk icon who's been around since Woody
Guthrie and inspired five decades of fellow musicians. At nearly 75,
he's the coolest grandfather you never had. Consider: Jack went hang
gliding the other day. Jack's off to the UK for a ''hellbent"
tour of England starting Sunday. Jack does killer impersonations of
Bob Dylan. At
Club Passim Monday night, Elliott gave a performance as wry and
immediate as anyone one-third his age. Alone
and peering out from below an ivory-colored cowboy hat that tamped
down a tangle of thick gray hair, Elliott said he was embarking on his
''mud-season tour" -- ''bringing sunshine to New England, a
thankless task."
Click Here for more. JULY
11, 2006 Ramblin’ Jack Elliott is preparing to release his Anti- Records debut album I Stand Alone on July 11, 2006. With sparse backing from some of today’s most respected musicians (Flea, Lucinda Williams, Nels Cline, David Hidalgo, Corin Tucker, DJ Bonebrake), the record simmers with reflection and humor. Click Here for more. |
Ramblin' Jack Elliott wandering this way
The
name is Ramblin' Jack Elliott and if you've paid any attention to
American folk music for the past half century or so, you know the
name.
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Ramblin'
Jack drops by for performance
March
11, 2004
Ramblin' Jack Elliott plays the Myer Horowitz Theatre this Saturday as part of the U of A Folkways Alive concert series, which celebrates folk music and its icons. Elliott will be joined by Alberta performer Corb Lund, who opens the show. Elliott's been everywhere, from brushes with the Beat Generation to serenading a pack of English teenagers (including Mick Jagger) on a railway platform, to playing for James Dean in a Hollywood parking lot. And then there's the famous sequence in the 1965 Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back, where an inebriated Dylan suddenly assaults Elliott's old touring partner Derrol Adams in barely concealed excitement, pointing his finger and exclaiming 'that guy plays like Jack, man! That guy plays like Jack!' Ramblin' Jack Elliott, early hero of Bob Dylan, protégé to Woody Guthrie, itinerant wanderer and folk singer, has certainly lived up to his chosen appellation. Click Here to More...
Ramblin' Jack Interview
by
Fish Griwkowsky
It’s
been a long time since Ramblin’ Jack Elliot was riding Bob Dylan’s
circus train, so long that to bring it up seems almost a discredit to
Elliot’s good name. But Elliot is a storyteller, and like the
collective memory of music itself, he tends to visit certain
highlights, including his time in the Rolling Thunder Revue in ’75
with Dylan, Joan Baez, T. Bone Burnett and the late Mick Ronson.
Elliot, of course, will be playing with none of these people on the
weekend, but he’s more than happy to talk about them, and in fact
anything, during a long conversation which didn’t so much ramble as
connect some unusual dots. Click Here for
More...
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THE BALLAD OF RAMBLIN' JACK DOCUMENTARY SET TO PREMIERE AT SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Shot over two years in locations around the country, The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack was directed by Jack's daughter, Aiyana Elliott, and produced by Plantain Films and Crawford Entertainment. The full-length documentary includes a number of performances at such locations as New York City's Bottom Line and the Cowboy Poetry Gathering held each year in Elko, Nevada. Additional archival sources include film by folklorist Alan Lomax, never-before-seen footage shot by D.A. Pennebaker, Ramblin' Jack appearances on The Johnny Cash Show and Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest and Elliott family home movies, as well as those from the family of Woody Guthrie, Jack's mentor and major musical influence. There are also interviews with Kris Kristofferson, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Dave Van Ronk and Odetta. "This film is the story of Jack's life, which parallels the history of the modern folk movement," said Aiyana Elliott. "Because he is my father, it is also a very personal telling of Ramblin' Jack's story, one that I feel for the first time gives a true insight into his place in history as both a performer and a person." Click Here to More