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Ramblin' Jack Elliott: A Stranger Here
by Ian Patterson
Few living artists can claim to have been mentor and model to Bob Dylan, but the man Dylan described as the King of folk singers-- Ramblin' Jack Elliott--has influenced a host of singers and story tellers from Johnny Cash and Ry Cooder to Tom Waits. Now in his sixth recording decade, Elliott returns in great voice with A Stranger Here, a collection of Depression-era blues numbers.
Elliott has carried on Woody Guthrie's folk tradition, though the blues has ...
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All About Jazz
Van Dyke Parks and Los Lobos' David Hidago lend a hand on storied songwriter Ramblin' Jack Elliott's second album this decade, A Stranger Here.
Due April 7th via Anti-, the set finds Elliott, 77, working with producer Joe Henry to interpret Depression-era blues songs. Parks contributes piano and vibraphone, while Hidago offers acoustic guitar and accordion.
The record company selected about 15 old blues songs that I might choose to learn, and I was listening to that CD about four ...
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Ramblin' Jack Elliott New Album
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JamBase
VENERABLE OLD SALT TO RELEASE FOLLOW-UP TO 2006's STELLAR I STAND ALONE
Ramblin' Jack Elliott will release his long-anticipated follow-up I Stand Alone on April 7, 2009, entitled A Stranger Here. Working with producer Joe Henry (Bettye LaVette, Solomon Burke, Elvis Costello/Allen Toussaint), the 77-year-old Elliott sings and plays acoustic guitar, and is backed by a stellar collection of musicians handpicked by Henry, among them Van Dyke Parks and David Hidalgo (Los Lobos).
Revered for his interpretive take on ...
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