The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957 [Live]

The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957 [Live]

The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957 [Live]

Track Listings
 
1. Intro [#]
2. Hard Travelin' [#]
3. Big Rock Candy Mountain [#]
4. Old Rattler [#]
5. Talking Columbia Blues [#]
6. Streets of Laredo [#]
7. Jack of Diamonds [#]
8. Rusty Jiggs & Sandy Sam [#]
9. Tom Joad [#]
10. Acres of Clams [#]
11. Freight Train [#]
12. Chisholm Trail [#]
13. Crawdad Song [#]
14. Black Girl (aka In the Pines) [#]
15. Tom Dooley [#]
16. Rocky Mountain Belle [#]

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.

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The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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 The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957
Ramblin Jack Elliot
Manufacturer: Hightone Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006419K0
Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

  1. Intro
  2. Hard Travelin'
  3. Big Rock Candy Mountain
  4. Old Rattler
  5. Talking Columbia Blues
  6. Streets Of Laredo
  7. Jack Of Diamonds
  8. Rusty Jiggs & Sandy Sam
  9. Tom Joad
  10. Acres Of Clams
  11. Freight Train
  12. Chisholm Trail
  13. Crawdad Song
  14. Black Girl (Aka In The Pines)
  15. Tom Dooley
  16. Rocky Mountain Belle

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:

4 out of 5 stars lost Jack.......2004-12-03

Along with its companion volume (The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957) this album of never-before-released Ramblin' Jack Elliott performances documents the early years of a long career as a raw, authentic-sounding folk singer who was a living bridge between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. Elliott, of course, has been a respected artist in his own right, though his eccentric ways are as often spoken of as his music.

These songs were recorded live, though not before an audience. Elliott sang them into a tape recorder aboard a yacht in a harbor in the Isle of Wight. The folk revival was just starting, and Elliott was doing songs that would enter the repertoires of many young guitar pickers to come. The set opens with a solid version of Guthrie's "Hard Travelin'" and moves on to a less edifying, safe-for-kids reading of "Big Rock Candy Mountain." There are, however, satisfying excursions into the Guthrie songbag, cowboy ballads (gritty takes on "Chisholm Trail" and "Streets of Laredo," surely close to the way actual cowboys sang them), and the once-ubiquitous "Acres of Clams," the most famous folk song to come out of the Pacific Northwest. For the most part Elliott is in superior form.

"Tom Dooley," unfortunately, is the Kingston Trio song, not one of the many more interesting and realistic variants sung of the long-ago North Carolina murder of Laura Foster. "Black Girl," learned from Lead Belly, gets off to a shaky start but then finds its feet. A stumble here and there notwithstanding, this recording is a good one, and longtime fans will be pleased to hear songs absent from other Elliott albums.

Now, for the next project: Isn't Ramblin' Jack long overdue for a serious biography?

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