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'''Ramblin' Jack Elliott''' (born '''Elliot Charles Adnopoz'''; August 1, 1931) is an American [[folk music|folk]] singer.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=427}}</ref>
'''Ramblin' Jack Elliott''' (born '''Elliott Charles Adnopoz'''; August 1, 1931) is an American [[folk music|folk]] singer and songwriter and musician.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=427}}</ref>


==Life and career==
==Life and career==
Elliott was born in 1931 in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|New York]], United States, the son of Florence (Rieger) and Abraham Adnopoz, an eminent doctor.<ref name="Larkin"/> His family was [[Jewish]]. He attended [[Midwood High School]] in Brooklyn and graduated in 1949. Elliott grew up inspired by the [[rodeo]]s at [[Madison Square Garden]], and wanted to be a cowboy.<ref name="Larkin"/> Encouraged instead to follow his father's example and become a surgeon, Elliott rebelled, running away from home at the age of 15 to join Col. Jim Eskew's Rodeo,<ref>[http://2talkhorses.com/?p=10031 Colonel Jim Eskew and his Wild West Show in Waverly, NY]</ref> the only rodeo east of the Mississippi. They traveled throughout the Mid-Atlantic states and New England. He was with them for only three months before his parents tracked him down and had him sent home, but Elliott was exposed to his first singing cowboy, Brahmer Rogers, a rodeo clown who played guitar and five-string banjo, sang songs, and recited poetry. Back home, Elliott taught himself guitar and started [[busking]] for a living. Eventually he got together with [[Woody Guthrie]] and stayed with him as an admirer and student.<ref name="Larkin"/>
Elliott was born in 1931 in [[Brooklyn|Brooklyn, New York City]], the son of Florence (Rieger) and Abraham Adnopoz, an eminent doctor.<ref name="Larkin"/> His family was [[Jewish]]. He attended [[Midwood High School]] in Brooklyn and graduated in 1949. Elliott grew up inspired by the [[rodeo]]s at [[Madison Square Garden]], and wanted to be a cowboy.<ref name="Larkin"/> Encouraged instead to follow his father's example and become a surgeon, Elliott rebelled, running away from home at the age of 15 to join Col. Jim Eskew's Rodeo,<ref>[http://2talkhorses.com/?p=10031 Colonel Jim Eskew and his Wild West Show in Waverly, NY]</ref> the only rodeo east of the Mississippi. They traveled throughout the Mid-Atlantic states and New England.
Elliott was with them for only three months before his parents tracked him down and had him sent home, but he had been exposed to his first singing cowboy, Brahmer Rogers, a rodeo clown who played guitar and five-string banjo, sang songs, and recited poetry. Back home, Elliott taught himself guitar and started [[busking]] for a living. Eventually he got together with [[Woody Guthrie]] and stayed with him as an admirer and student.<ref name="Larkin"/>
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| quote =Nobody I know—and I mean nobody—has covered more ground and made more friends and sung more songs than the fellow you're about to meet right now. He's got a song and a friend for every mile behind him. Say hello to my good buddy, Ramblin' Jack Elliott.<ref name="mfa.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.org/programs/music/ramblin-jack-elliott|title=Spring Music - Ramblin' Jack Elliott|publisher=[[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]]|access-date=7 February 2012}}</ref>
| quote =Nobody I know—and I mean nobody—has covered more ground and made more friends and sung more songs than the fellow you're about to meet right now. He's got a song and a friend for every mile behind him. Say hello to my good buddy, Ramblin' Jack Elliott.<ref name="mfa.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.org/programs/music/ramblin-jack-elliott|title=Spring Music - Ramblin' Jack Elliott|publisher=[[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]]|access-date=7 February 2012}}</ref>
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With banjo player [[Derroll Adams]], he toured the [[United Kingdom]] and Europe. By 1960, he had recorded three folk albums for the UK [[record label]] [[Topic Records]]. In London, he played small clubs and pubs by day and [[West End of London|West End]] [[cabaret]] [[nightclub]]s at night. When he returned to the States, Elliott found he had become renowned in American folk music circles.
With banjo player [[Derroll Adams]], he toured the [[United Kingdom]] and Europe. By 1960, he had recorded three folk albums for the UK [[record label]] [[Topic Records]]. In London, he played small clubs and pubs by day and [[West End of London|West End]] [[cabaret]] [[nightclub]]s at night. When he returned to the States, Elliott found he had become renowned in American folk music circles.


Woody Guthrie had the greatest influence on Elliott. Guthrie's son, [[Arlo Guthrie|Arlo]], said that because of Woody's [[Huntington's chorea|illness]] and early death, Arlo never really got to know him, but learned his father's songs and performing style from Elliott and, according to Arlo, Woody Guthrie once said that Jack Elliot "Sounds more like me than I do" [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ramblin-jack-elliott-interview-bob-dylan-bob-weir-894982/]. Elliott's guitar and his mastery of Guthrie's material had a big impact on [[Bob Dylan]] when he lived in Minneapolis.<ref>Dylan paid tribute to Elliott's music in ''[[Chronicles, Vol. 1]]'', pp 250-252</ref> When he reached New York, Dylan was sometimes referred to as the 'son' of Jack Elliott, because Elliott had a way of introducing Dylan's songs with the words: "Here's a song from my son, Bob Dylan." Dylan rose to prominence as a songwriter; Elliott continued as an interpretative troubadour, bringing old songs to new audiences in his idiosyncratic manner. Elliott also influenced [[Phil Ochs]], and played guitar and sang harmony on Ochs' cover of the song "Joe Hill" from the ''[[Tape from California]]'' album. Elliott also discovered singer-songwriter [[Guthrie Thomas]] in a bar in Northern California in 1973, bringing Thomas to Hollywood where Thomas' music career began.
Woody Guthrie had the greatest influence on Elliott. Guthrie's son, [[Arlo Guthrie|Arlo]], said that because of Woody's [[Huntington's chorea|illness]] and early death, Arlo never really got to know him, but learned his father's songs and performing style from Elliott and, according to Arlo, Woody Guthrie once said that Jack Elliot "Sounds more like me than I do" [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/ramblin-jack-elliott-interview-bob-dylan-bob-weir-894982/]. Elliott's guitar and his mastery of Guthrie's material had a big impact on [[Bob Dylan]] when he lived in Minneapolis.<ref>Dylan paid tribute to Elliott's music in ''[[Chronicles, Vol. 1]]'', pp 250-252</ref> When he reached New York, Dylan was sometimes referred to as the 'son' of Jack Elliott, because Elliott had a way of introducing Dylan's songs with the words: "Here's a song from my son, Bob Dylan." Dylan rose to prominence as a songwriter; Elliott continued as an interpretative troubadour, bringing old songs to new audiences in his idiosyncratic manner. Elliott also influenced [[Phil Ochs]], and played guitar and sang harmony on Ochs' cover of the song "Joe Hill" from the ''[[Tape from California]]'' album. Elliott also discovered singer-songwriter [[Guthrie Thomas]] in a bar in Northern California in 1973, bringing Thomas to Hollywood, where Thomas' music career began.


Elliott appeared in Dylan's 1975-1976 [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] concert tour,<ref name="Larkin"/> and played "Longheno de Castro" in Dylan's movie ''[[Renaldo and Clara]]'' accompanied by guitarist [[Arlen Roth]]. In the movie, he sings the song "South Coast" by Lillian Bos Ross and Sam Eskin, from whose lyric the character's name is derived.<ref>[http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/south-coast.shtml "South Coast" lyrics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205160706/http://arlo.net/resources/lyrics/south-coast.shtml |date=2010-12-05 }} - ''Arlo.net'', Arlo Guthrie's website</ref> Elliott also appears briefly in the 1983 film ''Breathless,'' starring Richard Gere and directed by Jim McBride.
Elliott appeared in Dylan's 1975-1976 [[Rolling Thunder Revue]] concert tour,<ref name="Larkin"/> and played "Longheno de Castro" in Dylan's movie ''[[Renaldo and Clara]]'' accompanied by guitarist [[Arlen Roth]]. In the movie, he sings the song "South Coast" by Lillian Bos Ross and Sam Eskin, from whose lyric the character's name is derived.<ref>[http://www.arlo.net/resources/lyrics/south-coast.shtml "South Coast" lyrics] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205160706/http://arlo.net/resources/lyrics/south-coast.shtml |date=2010-12-05 }} - ''Arlo.net'', Arlo Guthrie's website</ref> Elliott also appears briefly in the 1983 film ''[[Breathless_(1983_film)|Breathless]],'' starring [[Richard Gere]] and directed by [[Jim McBride]].


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Elliott plays guitar in a traditional flatpicking style, which he matches with his laconic, humorous storytelling, often accompanying himself on [[harmonica]]. His singing has a strained, nasal quality which the young Bob Dylan emulated. His repertoire includes American traditional music from various genres, including [[Country music|country]], [[blues]], [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] and folk.
Elliott plays guitar in both a traditional [[flatpicking]] style and a traditional [[fingerstyle guitar|fingerpicking]] style, depending on the song, which he matches with his laconic, humorous storytelling, often accompanying himself on [[harmonica]]. His singing has a strained, nasal quality which the young Bob Dylan emulated. His repertoire includes American traditional music from various genres, including [[Country music|country]], [[blues]], [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] and folk.


Elliott's nickname comes not from his traveling habits, but rather the countless stories he relates before answering the simplest of questions. Folk singer [[Odetta]] claimed that her mother gave him the name, remarking, "Oh, Jack Elliott, yeah, he can sure ramble on!"
Elliott's nickname comes not from his traveling habits, but rather the countless stories he relates before answering the simplest of questions. Folk singer [[Odetta]] claimed that her mother gave him the name, remarking, "Oh, Jack Elliott, yeah, he can sure ramble on!"


His authenticity as a folksy, down-to-earth country boy, despite being a Jewish doctor's son from Brooklyn, and his disdain for other folk singers, were parodied by the Folksmen ([[Christopher Guest]], [[Michael McKean]], and [[Harry Shearer]]) in the satirical documentary ''[[A Mighty Wind]]'' in the name of their "hit" album ''Ramblin'.'' ''A Mighty Wind'' also referred to a former member of the New Main Street Singers, Ramblin' Sandy Pitnick, a somewhat geeky-looking white man in a cowboy hat, apparently in parody of Elliott.
His image as a folksy, down-to-earth country boy, despite being a Jewish doctor's son from Brooklyn, and his disdain for other folk singers, were parodied in the fictional documentary ''[[A Mighty Wind]]'' in the character of a former member of the New Main Street Singers, Ramblin' Sandy Pitnick, a somewhat geeky-looking white man in a cowboy hat. The film's central band of folksingers, the Folksmen ([[Christopher Guest]], [[Michael McKean]], and [[Harry Shearer]]), are said to have a scored a hit album called ''Ramblin'.''


Elliott's first recording in many years, ''South Coast'', earned him his first [[Grammy Award]] in 1995. He was awarded the [[National Medal of Arts]] in 1998.
Elliott's first recording in many years, ''South Coast'', earned him his first [[Grammy Award]] in 1995. He was awarded the [[National Medal of Arts]] in 1998.
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In 2012 he was featured on the song "Double Lifetime" on the album ''[[Older Than My Old Man Now]]'' by [[Loudon Wainwright III]].
In 2012 he was featured on the song "Double Lifetime" on the album ''[[Older Than My Old Man Now]]'' by [[Loudon Wainwright III]].


Elliott appeared with the Ramblin' Jackernacle Choir, adding vocals, yodels, hollers, to [[Bob Weir|Bob Weir's]] 2016 [[solo album]] ''[[Blue Mountain (Bob Weir album)|Blue Mountain]]'', on the track "Ki-Yi Bossie".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/fall-music-preview-2016-35-must-hear-albums-w438379|title=Fall Music Preview 2016: 35 Must-Hear Albums|website=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=8 September 2016|access-date=12 January 2018}}</ref>
Elliott appeared with the Ramblin' Jackernacle Choir, adding vocals, yodels, hollers, to [[Bob Weir|Bob Weir's]] 2016 [[solo album]] ''[[Blue Mountain (Bob Weir album)|Blue Mountain]]'', on the track "Ki-Yi Bossie".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/fall-music-preview-2016-35-must-hear-albums-w438379|title=Fall Music Preview 2016: 35 Must-Hear Albums|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|date=8 September 2016|access-date=12 January 2018}}</ref>


==Discography==
==Discography==
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*2004: ''[[The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957]]''
*2004: ''[[The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957]]''
*2007: ''[[Vanguard Visionaries (Ramblin' Jack Elliott album)|Vanguard Visionaries]]''
*2007: ''[[Vanguard Visionaries (Ramblin' Jack Elliott album)|Vanguard Visionaries]]''
*2023: Ramblin' Jack Elliott – 100 Classic Recordings 1954-62 (Label: Acrobat – ACQCD 7174)


Additionally, ''[[Three Score and Ten]]'', Topic Records' 70th-anniversary boxed set released in 2009, included "Talking Dustbowl Blues" from ''Woody Guthrie's Blues'' as track twelve on the seventh CD.
Additionally, ''[[Three Score and Ten]]'', Topic Records' 70th-anniversary boxed set released in 2009, included "Talking Dustbowl Blues" from ''Woody Guthrie's Blues'' as track twelve on the seventh CD.
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This article is about the folk performer. For other people named Jack Elliott, see Jack Elliott (disambiguation).

Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Elliott at Knuckleheads Saloon in 2013
Elliott at Knuckleheads Saloon in 2013
Background information
Birth nameElliott Charles Adnopoz
Born (1931-08-01) August 1, 1931 (age 92)
New York City, U.S.
GenresFolk music
Occupation(s)
  • Musician
  • songwriter
Instrument(s)
  • Guitar
  • vocals
  • harmonica
Websitewww.ramblinjack.com

Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer and songwriter and musician.[1]

Life and career

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Elliott was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Florence (Rieger) and Abraham Adnopoz, an eminent doctor.[1] His family was Jewish. He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn and graduated in 1949. Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy.[1] Encouraged instead to follow his father's example and become a surgeon, Elliott rebelled, running away from home at the age of 15 to join Col. Jim Eskew's Rodeo,[2] the only rodeo east of the Mississippi. They traveled throughout the Mid-Atlantic states and New England.

Elliott was with them for only three months before his parents tracked him down and had him sent home, but he had been exposed to his first singing cowboy, Brahmer Rogers, a rodeo clown who played guitar and five-string banjo, sang songs, and recited poetry. Back home, Elliott taught himself guitar and started busking for a living. Eventually he got together with Woody Guthrie and stayed with him as an admirer and student.[1]

Nobody I know—and I mean nobody—has covered more ground and made more friends and sung more songs than the fellow you're about to meet right now. He's got a song and a friend for every mile behind him. Say hello to my good buddy, Ramblin' Jack Elliott.[3]

Johnny Cash, The Johnny Cash Television Show, 1969

With banjo player Derroll Adams, he toured the United Kingdom and Europe. By 1960, he had recorded three folk albums for the UK record label Topic Records. In London, he played small clubs and pubs by day and West End cabaret nightclubs at night. When he returned to the States, Elliott found he had become renowned in American folk music circles.

Woody Guthrie had the greatest influence on Elliott. Guthrie's son, Arlo, said that because of Woody's illness and early death, Arlo never really got to know him, but learned his father's songs and performing style from Elliott and, according to Arlo, Woody Guthrie once said that Jack Elliot "Sounds more like me than I do" [1]. Elliott's guitar and his mastery of Guthrie's material had a big impact on Bob Dylan when he lived in Minneapolis.[4] When he reached New York, Dylan was sometimes referred to as the 'son' of Jack Elliott, because Elliott had a way of introducing Dylan's songs with the words: "Here's a song from my son, Bob Dylan." Dylan rose to prominence as a songwriter; Elliott continued as an interpretative troubadour, bringing old songs to new audiences in his idiosyncratic manner. Elliott also influenced Phil Ochs, and played guitar and sang harmony on Ochs' cover of the song "Joe Hill" from the Tape from California album. Elliott also discovered singer-songwriter Guthrie Thomas in a bar in Northern California in 1973, bringing Thomas to Hollywood, where Thomas' music career began.

Elliott appeared in Dylan's 1975-1976 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour,[1] and played "Longheno de Castro" in Dylan's movie Renaldo and Clara accompanied by guitarist Arlen Roth. In the movie, he sings the song "South Coast" by Lillian Bos Ross and Sam Eskin, from whose lyric the character's name is derived.[5] Elliott also appears briefly in the 1983 film Breathless, starring Richard Gere and directed by Jim McBride.

My name is Longheno de Castro
My father was a Spanish grandee
But I won my wife in a card game
To Hell with those lords o'er the sea

Elliott plays guitar in both a traditional flatpicking style and a traditional fingerpicking style, depending on the song, which he matches with his laconic, humorous storytelling, often accompanying himself on harmonica. His singing has a strained, nasal quality which the young Bob Dylan emulated. His repertoire includes American traditional music from various genres, including country, blues, bluegrass and folk.

Elliott's nickname comes not from his traveling habits, but rather the countless stories he relates before answering the simplest of questions. Folk singer Odetta claimed that her mother gave him the name, remarking, "Oh, Jack Elliott, yeah, he can sure ramble on!"

His image as a folksy, down-to-earth country boy, despite being a Jewish doctor's son from Brooklyn, and his disdain for other folk singers, were parodied in the fictional documentary A Mighty Wind in the character of a former member of the New Main Street Singers, Ramblin' Sandy Pitnick, a somewhat geeky-looking white man in a cowboy hat. The film's central band of folksingers, the Folksmen (Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer), are said to have a scored a hit album called Ramblin'.

Elliott's first recording in many years, South Coast, earned him his first Grammy Award in 1995. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998.

His long career and strained relationship with his daughter Aiyana were chronicled in her 2000 film documentary, The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack.

At the age of 75, he changed labels and released I Stand Alone on the ANTI- label, with an assortment of guest backup players including members of Wilco, X, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The album was produced by Ian Brennan.[6] Jack said his intention was to title the album Not for the Tourists, because it was recorded partially in response to his daughter's request for songs he loved but never played in concert. When asked why he did not, he told her, "These songs are not for the tourists."

In 2012 he was featured on the song "Double Lifetime" on the album Older Than My Old Man Now by Loudon Wainwright III.

Elliott appeared with the Ramblin' Jackernacle Choir, adding vocals, yodels, hollers, to Bob Weir's 2016 solo album Blue Mountain, on the track "Ki-Yi Bossie".[7]

Discography

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Studio

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Live

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With Derroll Adams

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  • 1958: The Rambling Boys
  • 1963: Roll On Buddy
  • 1969: Folkland Songs
  • 1969: Riding in Folkland
  • 1975: America

Compilations

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Additionally, Three Score and Ten, Topic Records' 70th-anniversary boxed set released in 2009, included "Talking Dustbowl Blues" from Woody Guthrie's Blues as track twelve on the seventh CD.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise ed.). Virgin Books. p. 427. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.
  2. ^ Colonel Jim Eskew and his Wild West Show in Waverly, NY
  3. ^ "Spring Music - Ramblin' Jack Elliott". Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved February 7, 2012.
  4. ^ Dylan paid tribute to Elliott's music in Chronicles, Vol. 1, pp 250-252
  5. ^ "South Coast" lyrics Archived 2010-12-05 at the Wayback Machine - Arlo.net, Arlo Guthrie's website
  6. ^ "49th annual Grammy nominations list — part 2". Variety. December 7, 2006. Retrieved December 4, 2016.
  7. ^ "Fall Music Preview 2016: 35 Must-Hear Albums". Rolling Stone. September 8, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
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