The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957 [Live]

The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957 [Live]

Track Listings

1. Intro

2. T for Texas

3. Howdido

4. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say

5. Crash on the Highway

6. Candy Man

7. Ballad of John Henry

8. Car Song

9. Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms

10. Old Blue

11. Don't You Leave Me Here

12. Why Oh Why

13. In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

14. Oklahoma Hills

15. Rock Island Line

16. Closing/Railroad Bill

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
An American folk music legend, Ramblin' Jack Elliott toured with Woody Guthrie in the early '50s, redefined folk music in England during the late '50s, recorded a string of albums in the U.S. during the '60s' "folk boom," and toured with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in the mid '70s. He won a Grammy in 1995 for Best Traditional Folk Album and was nominated again in 1998 for Best Traditional Folk.

The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957,Ramblin Jack Elliot,Hightone Records,Folk,Folk & Traditional,Folk Revival,Pop,Traditional Folk

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once lost, now found

The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957
Ramblin Jack Elliot
Manufacturer: Hightone Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Folk | Styles | Music
Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music
General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music
Revival | Folk | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000640WH6
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

Intro
T For Texas
Howdido
I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say
Crash On The Highway
Candy Man
Ballad Of John Henry
Car Song
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Old Blue
Don't You Leave Me Here
Why O Why
In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree
Oklahoma Hills
Rock Island Line
Closing/Railroad Bill

Album Description

An American folk music legend, Ramblin' Jack Elliott toured with Woody Guthrie in the early '50s, redefined folk music in England during the late '50s, recorded a string of albums in the U.S. during the '60s' "folk boom," and toured with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue in the mid '70s. He won a Grammy in 1995 for Best Traditional Folk Album and was nominated again in 1998 for Best Traditional Folk.

Customer Reviews:

once lost, now found.......2004-12-04

Hightone is to be commended for resurrecting two long-lost Ramblin' Jack Elliott sets, both preserved on tape from Elliott's latter-1950s years in England and only now available to the rest of us. (The equally worthy companion disc is The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957.) Neither concerts nor studio recordings, they boast excellent sound quality. The performances are intimate and, the occasional stumble aside, nicely done.

Happily, the songs, while familiar in other versions by source or other artists, are not ones that Elliott recorded with monotonous regularity as his songlist shrank to maybe 25 songs over the decades. (In other words, fans can rest easy: no "San Francisco Bay Blues" or "Buffalo Skinners.") This disc demonstrates that, unlike most other folk singers of the emerging revival, Elliott was influenced by commercial country music (Jimmie Rodgers, Roy Acuff) and jazz (Jelly Roll Morton). But it also reminds us what a splendid interpreter of traditional music Elliott was and is.

Elliott's reading of "Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms" is distinctive in two ways. One, "Roll" is usually recorded as a bluegrass tune (most famously by Flatt & Scruggs), not as the solo banjo-vocal piece it was in its original incarnation. And two, Elliott plays banjo, which he practically never did on record, ordinarily leaving that instrument to his then-wife June or, more famously in those days, Derroll Adams. Besides being novel, it's just plain refreshing: new life in the bones of an old, old song.

Other standouts include "Rock Island Line," "Ballad of John Henry," and a slowed-down, too-short "Don't You Leave Me Here." Of the Woody Guthrie songs, all that need be said is that Elliott always has done them better than Woody, an indifferent performer, ever managed to do. Ramblin' Jack is one big reason we remember Woody's songs.

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