The Never Ending Pool

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Just happened to stumble upon this.

Transcript from the Music Experience Project

Ramblin' Jack Elliott:

I took a room at the Earl[e] Hotel on the corner of Washington Square. The building is still there, it has a different name now and it's been remodeled. It was a fairly crummy hotel at that time. I knew most of the cockroaches by their first name. I took a room on the third floor, I think it was room 310, and Pete La Farge was in room 312. He's an old rodeo buddy of mine. And Bob took a room down the hall, about 304, 305. Just a few doors down the hall from us. So we saw a lot of Bobby that first couple of months...

He had that round face, you know, and that peach fuzz, he couldn't grow a beard. He was nineteen years old. And he told me that he had all of my records; I think I had six records out by that time, in England, and one in the States. And he had all the records that he could get his hands on, from Topic in England, and me and Derroll Adams singing cowboy songs and Woody Guthrie songs

And since I had been a student of Woody's and a protégé of Woody's, of course Bob appreciated what I was doing and he related to me more than he related to most other people. So even though a lot of people seemed to dislike him because he appeared to be strange in many ways, I felt comfortable with him because he was a fan of mine, and he was wide open to me. So I was wide open to him.


There is a video of these comments in the link, plus other related vids.

http://www.empsfm.org/exhibitions/index.asp?articleID=568