Tracklisting
1. More Pretty Girls Than One
2. Roll on Buddy
3. Death of John Henry
4. Salty Dog Blues
5. Talking Blues
6. I’m Gonna Walk the Streets of Glory
7. Cigarettes and Whiskey
8. Danville Girl
9. Worried Man Blues
10. San Francisco Blues
11. Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms
12. I’m Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Hard
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott with Darrell Adams - Early Sessions
Jack Elliot: guitar and vocals
Derrell Adams: banjo and vocals
This CD is a re-release of the Everest Archive Of Folk Music LP Jack Elliot. Released in 1967. Initially, The Avett Brothers started out trying to emulate Ramblin Jack Elliot and a few other traditional artists. Bob’s audition in the media play parking lot couple of these songs were played, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad and More Pretty Girls Than One. Eventually, they started to work more and more of their original material into the sets, but this CD and Ramblin’ Jack had a significant impact on them, and over the years they have covered 9 of the 12 tracks. Woody Guthrie said: “ He sounds more like me than I do”. Born in Brooklyn in 1931 and at 14 he would run away out west to join a rodeo, learning guitar from rodeo clowns. His parents would find him after 3 months and bring him home. He heard Woody Guthrie for the first time in 1950, and everything changed. He would visit Woody at his home in 1951 which would lead to living with Woody for 2 years and travelling around with him for 5. The ramblin’ name came about because of the rambling on and on when he told a story. His friend and performing partner Darrell Adams would enter the picture in 1954 when they met in Topanga Canyon, CA. From the moment they met their playing and singing styles fit together perfectly,
I’m Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, Cigarettes and Whiskey and Rollin in My Sweet Baby’s Arms have stuck around since those early days and occasionally make a setlist. This is one of the cd’s that helped shape those early acoustic days. Thought they didn’t need to imitate and try to be a traditional artist for long, but I do think it was an essential part of them emerging as a creative artist on their own.
"I have some "friends" they don't know who I am
So I write quotations around the word friends
But I have a couple that have always been there for me"