Country Style (album) explained

Country Style
Type:	studio
Artist:	Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Cover:	Country Style Jack Elliott.jpg
Released:	1962
Genre:	Folk
Label:	Prestige/Folklore
Producer:	Kenneth S. Goldstein
Prev Title:	Jack Elliott at the Second Fret
Prev Year:	1962
Next Title:	Jack Elliott
Next Year:	1964

Country Style is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1962.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. wrote the album "On Country Style, one can see the rambling doctor's son come into his own as a performer... Elliott steps away from the past to carve out an irreverent, slap-happy style that showed that folk music, when handled without studious care, could be a helluva lot of fun... Country Style represents the first flowering of Elliott's talent and turning point for folk traditionalism."

Reissues

• Country Style was reissued on CD by Fantasy Records in 1999 along with Jack Elliott at the Second Fret.^[1]

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

Side one

1. "Mean Mama Blues" (Charles Mitchell, Moon Mullican)
2. "Low and Lonely" (Fred Rose)
3. "Wreck of the Old '97" (Henry Clay Work)
4. "Old Shep" (Red Foley)
5. "Wabash Cannonball" (A. P. Carter)
6. "Brown Eyes"
7. "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills)

Side two

1. "Arthritis Blues" (Butch Hayes)
2. "Take Me Back and Love Me One More Time"
3. "Tennessee Stud" (Jimmy Driftwood)
4. "Those Brown Eyes" (Alan Arkin, Bill Carey, Erik Darling, Woody Guthrie)
5. "Detour" (Paul Westmoreland)
6. "Soldier's Last Letter" (Ernest Tubb, Redd Stewart)

Personnel

• Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, harmonica, guitar

Technical

• Hal Lustig - recording
• Don Schlitten - design, photography

External links

• Ramblin' Jack Elliott Illustrated discography

Notes and References

1. Allmusic entry for Country Style/Live.