The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott Explained

The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Type:greatest
Artist:Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Cover:The Essential Ramblin Jack Elliott.jpg
Released:1976
Genre:Folk
Label:Vanguard
Producer:Maynard Solomon
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The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott is a compilation album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1976.[1] It was originally issued as a double LP including Elliot's only Vanguard release Jack Elliott and other live tracks. The album was reissued on CD in 1998.

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Roving Gambler" – 3:36
  2. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" – 2:38
  3. "Diamond Joe" – 2:58
  4. "Guabi Guabi" (Traditional, Jack Elliott) – 4:43
  5. "Sowing on the Mountain" – 2:15
  6. "Roll on Buddy" – 2:03
  7. "1913 Massacre" (Woody Guthrie) – 3:51
  8. "House of the Rising Sun" – 3:28
  9. "Shade of the Old Apple Tree" – 2:41
  10. "Black Snake Moan" – 3:26
  11. "Portland Town" (Derroll Adams) – 1:59
  12. "More Pretty Girls Than One" – 2:14

Double LP and CD reissue live tracks:

  1. "San Francisco Bay Blues" (Jesse Fuller) – 2:15
  2. "Buffalo Skinners" – 4:51
  3. "Sadie Brown" – 3:30
  4. "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 4:13
  5. "Blind Lemon Jefferson" (Lead Belly) – 3:55
  6. "Ramblin' Round Your City" (Guthrie) – 3:50
  7. "Tennessee Stud" (Jimmy Driftwood) – 4:14
  8. "Night Herding Song" – 3:20
  9. "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills) – 3:17
  10. "I Belong to Glasgow" (William Fyffe) – 5:31

Personnel

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.searchingforagem.com/1970s/1976.htm

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