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Re:RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT THREAD 13 Years, 3 Months ago

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Crawdaddy! reviews Elliott's 1964 Vanguard album, Jack Elliott:

Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Jack Elliott
(Vanguard, 1964)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott's voice is one of the natural wonders of the folk music world. When he cut Jack Elliott in 1964, he was in his prime, possessing a flexible tenor that had chilling power. His vocal lines on this album are often stretched to the breaking point with wailing wordless accents that combine the high, lonesome sound of a bluegrass singer, the forlorn melismas of a down-and-out bluesman, and the painful, alcohol-fueled madness of a country boy. Hank Williams comes to mind in the latter regard, with Elliott using the same kind of keening, not-quite-falsetto high end that manages to convey desperation and self-destructive jubilation in the same breath.

Not all the songs on Jack Elliot are laments, but with the exception of "Guabi Guabi," they are the tunes that leave the strongest impression. His performance of Woody Guthrie's "1913 Massacre," the story of a Christmas celebration that turns into a horrible tragedy, is one of his finest moments. He stretches syllables to the breaking point to mirror the sobbing of parents as they view the bodies of their dead children. "Diamond Joe," the tale of cowboys laboring for a dollar a day, is not without its ironic humor, but the misery of working long hours for almost no pay is palpable. His howling rendition of Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Black Snake Moan" still sends chills down my spine, with Elliott's forlorn warble wordlessly implying the world of pain he feels at being betrayed by his woman.

On the upside, he gives us "Shade of the Old Apple Tree," an absurd vaudeville tune about bathing and marriage, and the aforementioned "Guabi, Gaubi," which was the album's big hit on folk radio. Elliott wasn't a world music artist, but he found "Guabi, Guabi" on an album of Zulu guitar music recorded by the South African folklorist Hugh Tracey. The original guitarist's name was George Sibanda and the tune is a well-known Zulu children's song that talks about buying sweets and bananas for your girlfriend. It was a hit in England in the late '50s, which is when Elliott probably heard it. Sibanda combined Zulu rhythms with ragtime, and Elliott copied Sibanda's syncopated picking almost note-for-note on his version, adding a long outro featuring a guitar jam with folk heavies John Herald (Greenbriar Boys,) Ian Tyson (Ian & Sylvia), and Monte Dunn, a folk session player who also backed up Judy Collins, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and eventually Cher. "Guabi Gaubi" is one of the most exuberant tunes Elliott ever cut, one of his greatest hits, and it's still an impressive bit of guitar work.

Elliot went on to make more than 40 albums for dozens of labels, all mining his extensive knowledge of folk, blues, cowboy songs, early country, and old time music, but Jack Elliott may be his best album. The song selection is flawless, the recording quality pristine, and these songs still appear almost every time Elliott plays a live set.

In case you need a little bit of back-story to put this all in context: Elliott was a cornerstone of the '60s folk revival and a close pal of both Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. Guthrie once famously remarked "(Elliott) sounds more like me than I do." Dylan went from being a Guthrie clone to being an Elliott clone before settling into his own unique style. Elliott grew up playing guitar and wanting to be a cowboy. He worked in a rodeo after dropping out of high school and went on the road with Guthrie for a few years, eventually landing in Topanga Canyon. Elliott met his wife June in California, and they moved to London in 1955. The Brits loved Elliott's authentic cowboy style, unaware of the fact that he'd been born in Brooklyn and learned his cowboy moves from Gene Autry movies. He made his first recordings for the legendary Topic Label in 1955, and toured extensively in Europe before returning to the US in 1961. He probably heard "Guabi Guabi" in London.

Back in the US, he met Dylan in Guthrie's hospital room in 1961 and helped Dylan get into the musician's union. The folk scene was just starting to take off, driven in part by the people Elliott was drawing into the folk clubs of Greenwich Village. When Columbia signed Dylan, he tried to get Elliott a deal with the label, but they were only willing to take a risk on one folk singer at a time. Dylan's producer, the legendary John Hammond, helped get Elliott his deal at Vanguard, the label that helped fuel the folk revival with albums by the Weavers, Joan Baez, Ian & Sylvia, the Greenbriar Boys, Buffy Sainte-Marie, and the Rooftop Singers.

The songs on Jack Elliott are the backbone of Elliott's live set, tunes he's perfected with countless performances over the preceding years. He'd made good albums before, but Vanguard's attention to sonic purity made the music on Jack Elliott really stand out and resonate. Forty-five years later, Jack Elliott still sounds fresh, one of the best albums to come out of the folk revival. Elliott is still playing gigs, although he's cut down some on his ramblin'. Today he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Btw, the album is available in its entirety on The Essential Jack Elliott (Vanguard) label, which also includes a first-rate concert performance, ca. 1964.