The Never Ending Pool

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Thanks for this, 4th.

For those who might be wondering what these segments are about, they consist primarily of a telephone interview with Elliott that took place this past Sunday, AU 29th 2010. The interview, from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, is in Segments 2, 3, & 4, with Segment 1 being primarily background. Each segment averages about 14 minutes.

Because the interviewer speaks of Hibbing Days coming up in May, my guess is that some of the non-interview talk was done last year, sometime, before Jack had to cancel a tour to have bypass surgery done. But again, the interview itself was done this past Sunday as Elliott talks about Bob doing a show in San Francisco that evening.

The most interesting segment for a Dylan fan is #3, where the subject matter is mostlty about the Dylan-Elliott relationship. And #4 has some good stuff about Woody's impact on a young artist (Elliott) and the musical mentor-mentee relationship. Also, there's a detailed account by Ramblin' Jack of the intersection of a (roughly) 12 year-old Mick Jagger and Elliott on opposite railway platforms in a station in Mick's hometown.

Just one last note: The interviewer (who was quite effective, in my view) spoke of Dylan covering a Jack Elliott song, "Diamond Joe," the cowboy version (as opposed to the "riverboat" version on Masked and Anonymous). Elliott did not write either of those. He did have a hand in popularizing the cowboy version that Bob plays on Good As I Been To You.