Talk:Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Attribution
Where is the quote about Dylan found? A book? A website? --sparkit 03:16, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Moving the quote to here until we get attibution --sparkit 15:35, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I don't have my book with me, but my guess is that this quote would be from Dylan's Chronicles. Although I'm reading that the user Buckshot is making things up and vandalising. I started this thread before I had a user account. I'm new to this. Thanks for your fixes Sparkit.--Bryanjrod 16:33, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

"Ramblin' Jack is a ray-eyed man, as they used to say--a man who in his early days cast his glance over the entirety of the American musical tradition, which has not much to do with so-called folk music--except that it was the music of a particular folk, the American folk. Before a young upstart from Duluth, MN taught everyone to love sea shanties, Jack Elliott traveled around the country in search of songs. He collected and sang "songs from most of the 48 states," as he says on one record. He sang about Rusty Jiggs & Sandy Sam, Tom Joad, Tom Dooley, acres of clams and fine ol' dogs and muley cows. His recording of the immortal tale of reluctant love in Appalachia, "Blue Ridge Mountain Belle," brings back that dark, sexual humor that this country was brung [sic] up in.

"He has recorded and toured sporadically over the years--his other interests blowing hither and yon like the wind, his musical interests staying solid as a Sequoia in the Sierry Peaks--oh, young man, that you should here him sing "Don't Think Twice It's Alright"-- a cowboy, a drifter, a scoundrel and a singin' bard of the first rate. He once said that it ain't where you're goin', it's where ya been, and that's God's honest lie--that's Jack Elliott--a truthtellin' liar. He sings of an America that never existed, one that disappeared when the Pilgrims caught the first whiff of ol' Virginia and headed on up to Massachussetts.

"One of these ol' boys said that Jack Elliott ain't really from NYC, that you can tell by the way he plays guitar that he's from the same region as the Carter Family. I told him, I says, 'Well, my good sir, I really don't know what to believe anymore. One of these guys told me Bob Dylan's really from Mississippi, and I have never seen Mississippi, not since the early days at any rate.' And then there was this one crazy book I read, where the author said that these boys connected traditional music to the great tradition of southern literature through storytellin'. I told him he was nuts, but you never know, buddy, you never know."

"Son of Jack Elliott"
I have been informed, and I agree with it entirely, that Dylan was and never has been billed as "Son of Jack Elliott." This claim has come only from Elliott himself: "It's funny but for a while Dylan was known as the son of Jack Elliott. Sometimes I would introduce Don't Think Twice, It's Alright or some other song to the crowd: Here's a song from my son, Bob Dylan." Robert Shelton No Direction Home p104. Thanks, Lion King 09:38, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

He was in "Honky Tonk Nights" (1978)
I haven't seen this film but I did just see a trailer for it and Ramblin' Jack Elliott gets high billing. Oddly, IMDB doesn't list him on the cast. The trailer made it look like a pretty bad film but Elliott fans will still probably want to see it, anyway. --Calan (talk) 05:13, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

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Update, please
In September 2016, Rolling Stone reported that he will appear alongside Bob Weir, on Weir's new solo album Blue Mountain, on the track "Ki-Yi Bossie".
 * Did this happen? Valetude (talk) 00:28, 14 November 2019 (UTC)