Ramblin Jack Elliot: Ballad of Ramblin Jack O.S.T. [Soundtrack]

Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 15, 2000)
• Original Release Date: August 15, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Vanguard Records
• ASIN: B00004UETH
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,239 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Mule Skinner Blues

2. Cuckoo

3. Hard Travelin'

4. Railroad Bill

5. Buskin'

6. Pastures of Plenty

7. Rake and Ramblin' Boy

8. San Francisco Bay Blues

9. Candy Man/Talkin' Sailor Blues

10. Acne

11. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

12. Take Me Home

13. If I Were a Carpenter

14. Car Song

15. 900 Miles [Odetta]

16. Cup of Coffee

17. Introduction

18. 1913 Massacre

19. Cuckoo (Reprise)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 50 Years of Ramblin' Jack in The American Century, August 17, 2000

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Frederick (Petaluma, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ramblin Jack Elliot: Ballad of Ramblin Jack O.S.T. (Audio CD)

Ramblin' Jack has outdown himself, or lets say his daughter has by putting together this collection, the choices, and the voices along the way. This is true Ramblin' Jack, capturing him at various stops in more than 45 years of recording. The duet with a young Bob Dylan is a rarity. The 1998 versions of great Ramblin' Jack often performed songs (this time live at New York's Bottom Line) such as "1913 Massacre" and "Don't Think Twice" along with songs captured at the 1998 Elko, Nevada Cowboy Poetry Festival, "If I were A Carpenter" and "Cuckoo" are among the best he has ever done. This sound track to the film documentary now at theatres (read Stephen Holden's fascinating review in the Wednesday, August 16, New York Times) produced by Alyana Elliott is a must for anyone interested in folk music, or American music, in the 20th century. If you have never heard of Ramblin' Jack, now is the time. If you are already a fan, this is yours. What were we doing last century? Listen to Ramblin' Jack, it will help you in the 21st Century.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ramblin' Jack, great American, October 2, 2000

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Jerome Clark (Canby, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ramblin Jack Elliot: Ballad of Ramblin Jack O.S.T. (Audio CD)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott's recorded output has been as wild, woolly, and uneven as the man himself, but this retrospective -- capturing him through a long career from the young, Guthrie-besotted singer/guitarist to his present status as revered elder statesman of American folk music -- is simply wonderful. The duet with Woody Guthrie on "Railroad Bill" (not "Hard Travelin" as the Amazon review has it) is itself worth the price of the disc. It is one of Guthrie's last recording sessions, moving for that but musically appealing as well. Elliott's astonishingly affecting reading of Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice," like so much of his distinctly finite repertoire, has been recorded before, but its reappearance here is no less welcome for that. Late in life, through the documentary for which this is the soundtrack and through sheer perseverance, Ramblin' Jack steps out of the long shadows cast on him by Guthrie and Dylan -- the first the man from whom he learned, the other the boy whom he taught -- and proves himself, for yet one more time, to be indispensable, a personality different from but as uniquely American as Guthrie's. Over the years I've heard a lot of Ramblin' Jack records, but I'm hard-pressed to think of one as thoroughly engaging, and as fully satisfying, as this one. Miss it at your own peril.

17 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack, August 15, 2000

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Chesley M. (Indian Wells, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ramblin Jack Elliot: Ballad of Ramblin Jack O.S.T. (Audio CD)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott is a living American legend, and "true music" doesn't get any better than this album. Spanning a lifetime of experiences with some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, Jack's impact on the music world is unmistakeable. His music will remain forever young.