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Ramblin' Jack Elliott: A Stranger Here

Read "A Stranger Here" reviewed 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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Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings the Blues

Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings the Blues

Source: 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

Ramblin' Jack Elliott New Album

Source: 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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