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Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Person · male · United States · Brooklyn · born 1931 · recording since 1957

American singer and guitarist

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Also known as Elliott Charles Adnopoz · Ramblin Jack Elliott · Ramblin' Jack Elliot · ランブリン・ジャック・エリオット

Debut: 1957
Recording span: 52 years
Release groups: 37
Awards: 2
Timeline events: 27
Wiki language versions: 17

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Timeline

27 events▣ Album 25◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1

1930s
1. 1 August 1931 · Birth
  Born 1931-08-01
  source: wikidata
1950s
1. 1957 · Debut release
  Debut release: Jack Elliott Sings, Volume 2
  First documented EP in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1957 · Album
  Album: Woody Guthrie’s Blues
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1957 · Album
  Album: Jack Elliot Sings
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 1958 · Album
  Album: Jack Takes the Floor
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 1959 · Album
  Album: Ramblin’ Jack Elliott in London
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1960s
1. 1961 · Album
  Album: Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. July 1961 · Album
  Album: Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1962 · Album
  Album: Country Style
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 1964 · Album
  Album: Jack Elliott
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 1964 · Album
  Album: Roll On Buddy
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 31 January 1966 · Album
  Album: Riding In Folkland
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 1968 · Album
  Album: Young Brigham
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1970s
1. 1970 · Album
  Album: Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1990s
1. 1 March 1990 · Album
  Album: Legends of Folk
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1995 · Album
  Album: South Coast
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1995 · Album
  Album: Me & Bobby McGee
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 10 September 1997 · Album
  Album: Ramblin' Jack Elliott
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 16 September 1997 · Album
  Album: Kerouac’s Last Dream
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 17 March 1998 · Album
  Album: Friends of Mine
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 1999 · Album
  Album: Country Style / Live
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 1999 · Album
  Album: Early Sessions
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
9. 1999 · Album
  Album: The Long Ride
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2000s
1. 31 October 2000 · Album
  Album: Best of the Vanguard Years
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 2004 · Album
  Album: The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 10 July 2006 · Album
  Album: I Stand Alone
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 7 April 2009 · Album
  Album: A Stranger Here
  Album
  source: musicbrainz

Biography

English biography1,273 words · 6 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1377103286

Biography

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

Life and career

Elliott was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Florence (Rieger) and Abraham Adnopoz, an eminent doctor. His family was Jewish. He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn and graduated in 1949. Elliott grew up in Midwood, Brooklyn and inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden and wanted to be a cowboy. 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, 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.

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. In 1963 while in London, on one or possibly more occasions he recorded two songs in front of a live television audience for the UK regional television folk and blues music series Hullabaloo, presented by the Scottish folksinger Rory McEwen; these sessions were released on DVD in 2020. 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". Elliott's guitar and his mastery of Guthrie's material had a significant impact on Bob Dylan when he lived in Minneapolis. 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, played guitar, and sang harmony on Ochs's 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's music career began.
Elliott appeared in Dylan's 1975–1976 Rolling Thunder Revue concert tour, 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 CoastSouth Coast1995 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1Pastures of Plenty2:492If I Were a Carpenter5:023Cocaine Blues2:314I Ain't Got No Home2:105Will James2:166The Buffalo Skinners (On the Trail of the Buffalo)5:237Rake and Ramblin' Boy2:278South Coast7:569Talkin' Dust Bowl3:0610Mean Old Bedbug Blues3:2711Ludlow Massacre4:2512San Francisco Bay Blues2:14" by Lillian Bos Ross and Sam Eskin, whose lyric the character's name is derived from.

Elliott also appears briefly in the 1983 film Breathless, starring Richard Gere and directed by Jim McBride.
Elliott plays guitar in both traditional flatpicking and fingerpicking styles, depending on the song, which he matches with his laconic, humorous storytelling, sometimes accompanying himself on harmonica. His singing has a strained, nasal quality, which young Bob Dylan copies. His repertoire includes traditional American music from various genres, including country, blues, bluegrass and folk.
Elliott's nickname comes not from his traveling habits but rather from 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 scored a hit album called Ramblin'.
In 1995, Elliott's first recording in many years, South Coast, earned him his first Grammy Award. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998.
His long career and strained relationship with his daughter Aiyana was 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. Elliott 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 has been identified as an inspiration for the character of Al Cody (Adam Driver) in the 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis, written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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".

Studio

1956: Woody Guthrie's Blues
1957: Jack Elliot Sings
1958: Jack Takes the Floor
1959: Ramblin' Jack Elliott in London EMI Records
1960: Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers
1960: Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie
1961: Songs to Grow On by Woody Guthrie, Sung by Jack Elliott (Folkways Records)
1961: Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Prestige/Folklore)
1962: Country Style (Prestige/Folklore)
1964: Jack Elliott (Vanguard)
1968: Young Brigham (Reprise)
1970: Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks (Reprise)
1981: Kerouac's Last Dream (Folk Freak/re-release by Conträr Musik, Germany)
1995: South Coast (Red House)
1998: Friends of Mine (HighTone)
1999: The Long Ride (HighTone)
2006: I Stand Alone (ANTI-)
2009: A Stranger Here (ANTI-)

Live

1957: The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957
1962: Jack Elliott at the Second Fret

With Derroll Adams

1958: The Rambling Boys
1963: Roll On Buddy
1969: Folkland Songs
1969: Riding in Folkland
1975: America
2025: Folkland Songs - (CD) Strictly Country Records
2025: Riding in Folkland - (CD) Strictly Country Records

Compilations

1963: Talking Woody Guthrie (Topic)
1964: Muleskinner (Topic)
1976: The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Vanguard)
1989: Hard Travelin' (reissue of Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
1989: Talking Dust Bowl: The Best of Ramblin' Jack Elliott
1990: Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Spider John Koerner, U. Utah Phillips: Legends of Folk (Red House)
1990: Jack Elliott Plus / Jack Elliott
1995: Me and Bobby McGee (reissue of Young Brigham and Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks)
1995: Jack Elliott: Ramblin' Jack, The Legendary Topic Masters
1999: Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Early Sessions
2000: Best of the Vanguard Years
2004: The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957
2004: The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957
2007: 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.

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.

Normalised profile metrics with percentile rank
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	17	76.4th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	37	92.1th
Studio albums	25	97.5th
Awards recorded	2	92.6th
Timeline events	27	96.1th
Recording span (years)	52	92.5th
Genres	4	84.7th

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Discography (37 release groups · 25 studio albums)

Albums · 25

Woody Guthrie’s Blues
1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks
A1Talking Columbia Blues
A2Ludlow Massacre
A3Hard Travelling
B1Talking Dust Bowl Blues
B21913 Massacre
B3Talking Sailor Blues
Jack Elliot Sings
1957 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks
A1Alabama Bound
A2Good Morning Blues
A3Talking Blues
A4Rocky Mountain Belle
B1Jesse Fuller's San Francisco Bay
B2Fifteen Cents
B3Mule Skinners
B4John Henry
Jack Takes the Floor
1958 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 31:47
1San Francisco Bay Blues3:00
2Ol' Riley2:03
3The Boll Weevil3:07
4Bed Bug Blues3:01
5New York Town3:25
6Grey Goose1:43
7Mule Skinners Blues5:25
8Cocaine2:27
9Dink's Song3:22
10Black Baby1:39
11Salty Dog2:35
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott in London
1959 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
A1Rusty Jiggs and Sandy Sam
A2Git Along Little Dogies
A3Sadie Brown
A4Night Herding Song
A5Chisholm Trail
A6Fifteen Cents and a Dollar
B1Rocky Mountain Belle
B2Talkin’ Blues
B3Diamond Joe
B4In the Willow Garden
B5I Ride an Old Paint
B6Jack o’Diamonds
Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 32:52
A1Do-Re-Me2:35
A2Dead or Alive3:26
A3Grand Coulee Dam2:42
A4Dust Storm Disaster3:27
A5I Ain't Got No Home2:20
A6So Long (Its Been Good To Know Yuh)3:55
B1T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)3:41
B2Waiting for a Train2:32
B3Jimmie the Kid2:30
B4Mother, the Queen of My Heart3:08
B5In the Jailhouse Now2:36
B6Whippin' That Old T.B.
Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie
1961 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 40:57
A1Hard Travelling2:32
A2Grand Coulee Dam2:22
A3New York Town3:34
A4Tom Joad6:14
A5Howdido1:29
A6Talking Dust Bowl2:40
A7This Land Is Your Land2:24
B1Pretty Boy Floyd3:08
B2Philadelphia Lawyer2:28
B3Talking Columbia2:42
B4Dust Storm Disaster2:45
B5Riding in My Car1:56
B61913 Massacre3:29
B7So Long3:14
Country Style
1962 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 31:58
1Mean Mama Blues1:51
2Low And Lonely1:48
3The Wreck Of The Old 971:46
4Old Shep2:57
5Wabash Cannonball3:41
6Brown Eyes2:07
7Love Sick Blues2:17
8Arthristis Blues3:10
9Take Me Back And Love Me One More Time1:51
10The Tennessee Stud3:33
11Those Brown Eyes2:31
12Detour2:04
13The Soldier's Last Letter2:22
Jack Elliott
1964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
1Roving Gambler
2Will the Circle Be Unbroken
3Diamond Joe
4Guabi Guabi
5Sowing on the Mountains
6Roll On Buddy
71913 Massacre
8House of the Rising Sun
9Shade of the Old Apple Tree
10Black Snake Moan
11Portland Town
12More Pretty Girls
Roll On Buddy
1964 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 33:04
A1Ramblin’ Boy2:47
A2Plains of the Buffalo4:32
A3The Rock1:06
A4Ain’t It Hard3:18
A5All Around the Watertank1:53
A6Mother’s Not Dead2:02
B1Green Back Dollar2:36
B2The Batchelor2:22
B3Hey Mr Railroad Man2:48
B4Arkansas3:20
B5Mr Garfield4:26
B6Roll on Buddy (incomplete)1:54
Riding In Folkland
1966 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 38:41
A1Wreck on the Highway3:14
A2Portland Town2:11
A3Danville Girl3:06
A4The Tramp on the Street3:02
A5Worried Man Blues3:31
A6San Francisco Bay Blues1:55
A7900 Miles3:56
B1Hard Traveling3:21
B2More Pretty Girls Than One2:00
B3Freight Train2:28
B4Talking Blues2:32
B5I'm Sad and I'm Lonely2:25
B6Roll On Buddy2:30
B7Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms2:30
Young Brigham
1968 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks
A1If I Were a Carpenter
A2Talking Fisherman
A3Tennessee Stud
A4Tractor
A5Night Herding Song
A6Rock Island Line
B1Danville Girl
B2912 Greens
B3Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
B4Connection
B5Goodnight Little Arlo
Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks
1970 · studio album
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Tracklist · 14 tracks · 35:06
A1Me and Bobby McGee3:46
A2Folsom Prison Blues3:49
A3Reason to Believe2:03
A4I'll Be Your Baby Tonight1:51
A5Don't Let Your Deal Go Down1:16
A6We Come Here Not Chicago Dutchland For The Alles Brink Hoop Geslaffen Mocker2:40
B1Don't Think Twice, It's All Right1:06
B2Lay, Lady, Lay2:56
B3Girl From the North Country3:01
B4The Tramp on the Street4:28
B5Michigan Water Blues2:15
B6Don't You Leave Me Here1:26
B7Blue Mountain0:45
B8With God on Our Side3:44
Legends of Folk
1990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 22 tracks · 1:13:02
1Utah Introduces Spider John Koerner2:04
2Runnin', Jumpin', Standin' Still2:46
3John Introduces Creepy John0:26
4Creepy John4:03
5I Ain't Blue2:58
6Good Time Charlie2:38
7Utah Introduces Ramblin' Jack Elliott1:29
8Talkin' Fishin'5:14
9Jack Introduces Don't Think Twice1:49
10Don't Think Twice, It's All Right4:07
11Quoting Thoreau0:25
12On the Range of the Buffalo5:47
13Utah Introduces U. Utah Phillips0:35
14Railroading On The Great Divide5:44
15Hallelujah, I'm a Bum2:34
16Utah Introduces the Final Set0:29
17Old Shep4:31
18Danville Girl3:49
19Touch Me2:18
20Everybody's Going for the Money2:27
21912 Greens13:39
22Here With You3:10
South Coast
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 43:46
1Pastures of Plenty2:49
2If I Were a Carpenter5:02
3Cocaine Blues2:31
4I Ain't Got No Home2:10
5Will James2:16
6The Buffalo Skinners (On the Trail of the Buffalo)5:23
7Rake and Ramblin' Boy2:27
8South Coast7:56
9Talkin' Dust Bowl3:06
10Mean Old Bedbug Blues3:27
11Ludlow Massacre4:25
12San Francisco Bay Blues2:14
Me & Bobby McGee
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 55:41
1Me & Bobby McGee2:49
2Folsom Prison Blues3:36
3Reason to Believe2:05
4I'll Be Your Baby Tonight1:47
5Don't Let Your Deal Go Down1:19
6912 Greens7:21
7If I Were a Carpenter5:02
8Talking Fisherman Blues3:59
9Tennessee Stud4:52
10Night Herding Song2:33
11Rock Island Line5:29
12Don't Think Twice, It's All Right3:51
13Lay Lady Lay2:58
14Tramp on the Street4:19
15With God on Our Side3:41
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks
1Sadie Brown
2East Virginia Blues
3I Belong To Glasgow
4The Cuckoo
5Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
6South Coast
7San Francisco Bay Blues
8The Last Letter
9I Love Her So/I Got A Woman
10Candyman
11Tramp On The Street
12Railroad Bill
Kerouac’s Last Dream
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:10:09
1Pretty Boy Floyd4:04
2Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain3:16
3Freight Train Blues3:48
4Talkin’ Fishin’3:41
5Roving Gambler3:56
6Cuckoo3:42
7Don’t Think Twice3:43
8Soldier’s Last Letter3:09
91913 Massacre5:07
10Buffalo Skinners5:19
11Nightherding Song2:55
12Mean Mamma Blues2:28
13I Threw It All Away2:40
14Detour2:15
15Riding Down Canyon5:36
16Cup of Coffee4:18
17912 Greens10:12
Friends of Mine
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 48:49
1Riding Down the Canyon4:25
2Me and Billy the Kid3:50
3Last Letter5:09
4Louise4:47
5Rex's Blues2:38
6Walls of Red Wing4:33
7Hard Travelin'2:47
8He Was a Friend of Mine3:27
9Dark as as a Dungeon4:45
10Friend of the Devil4:17
11Reason to Believe3:29
12Bleeker Street Blues3:55
13Old Time Feelin'0:47
Country Style / Live
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 25 tracks · 1:11:50
1Mean Mama Blues1:54
2Low and Lonely1:51
3The Wreck of the Old 971:49
4Old Shep3:01
5Wabash Cannonball3:45
6Beautiful Brown Eyes2:11
7Lovesick Blues2:20
8Arthritis Blues3:14
9Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time1:55
10Tennessee Stud3:36
11Those Brown Eyes2:34
12Detour2:08
13The Soldier's Last Letter2:25
14Mule Skinner Blues5:27
15Cool Water4:09
16Talking (intro)0:43
17Talking Miner2:12
18Boll Weevil3:07
19How Long Blues5:00
20Salty Dog2:25
21Tying Knots in the Devil's Tail2:36
22Hobo's Lullaby2:23
23Talking (intro)1:57
24Talking Sailor4:02
25Rock Island Line5:06
Early Sessions
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 29:12
1More Pretty Girls Than One2:02
2Roll on Buddy2:32
3Death of John Henry2:32
4Salty Dog Blues2:49
5Talking Blues2:34
6I'm Gonna Walk the Street to Glory1:48
7Cigarettes & Whiskey2:02
8Danville Girl2:46
9Worried Man Blues3:33
10San Francisco Bay Blues1:58
11Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms2:33
12I'm Going Down the Road2:03
The Long Ride
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 56:20
1Connection3:09
2Cup of Coffee6:16
3Ranger's Command3:30
4Pony3:24
5St. James Infirmary3:21
6Picture From Life's Other Side5:04
7East Virginia Blues3:59
8The Sky Above and the Mud Below6:15
9Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time3:27
10Now He's Just Dust in the Wind4:34
11True Blue Jeans2:32
12Diamond Joe3:17
13With God on Our Side7:32
Best of the Vanguard Years
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 25 tracks · 1:12:13
1Roving Gambler3:35
2Will the Circle Be Unbroken2:37
3Diamond Joe2:58
4Guabi Guabi4:43
5Sowing on the Mountain2:15
6Roll on Buddy2:01
71913 Massacre3:52
8House of the Rising Sun3:27
9Shade of the Old Apple Tree2:42
10Black Snake Moan3:25
11Portland Town1:59
12More Pretty Girls2:14
13Danville Girl2:53
14John Hardy2:27
15Dark as a Dungeon2:53
16Hard, Ain't It Hard2:40
17Don't Think Twice, It's All Right3:16
18I Got a Woman2:33
19Railroad Bill3:57
20I Never Will Marry2:29
21At My Window2:09
22Blue Eyed Elaine2:18
23Wildwood Flower2:25
24Ranger's Command3:32
25Willie Moore2:53
The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957
2004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 43:05
1Intro0:48
2Hard Travelin'3:58
3Big Rock Candy Mountain1:44
4Old Rattler2:18
5Talking Columbia Blues3:06
6Streets of Laredo2:27
7Jack of Diamonds3:23
8Rusty Jiggs & Sandy Sam2:54
9Tom Joad7:26
10Acres of Clams2:32
11Freight Train1:14
12Chisholm Trail1:58
13Crawdad Song2:26
14Black Girl (a.k.a. in the Pines)3:05
15Tom Dooley2:16
16Rocky Mountain Belle1:30
I Stand Alone
2006 · studio album
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Tracklist · 16 tracks · 32:25
1Engine 1433:28
2Arthritis Blues4:21
3Old Blue3:16
4Driving Nails in My Coffin1:54
5Rake & Ramblin' Boy1:50
6Hong Kong Blues2:08
7Jean Harlow0:31
8Call Me a Dog1:26
9Careless Darling1:27
10Mr. Garfield3:36
11My Old Dog & Me0:19
12Leaving Cheyenne1:40
13Remember Me1:19
14Willy Moore2:06
15Honey, Where You Been So Long?1:26
16Woody's Last Ride1:38
A Stranger Here
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 44:58
1Rising High Water Blues3:55
2Death Don't Have No Mercy6:08
3Rambler's Blues5:14
4Soul of a Man4:16
5Richland Women Blues4:25
6Grinnin' in Your Face3:55
7New Stranger Blues3:25
8Falling Down Blues4:53
9How Long Blues4:44
10Please Remember Me4:03

EP · 1

EP release groups, by first release date
Cover	Year	Title	Notes	First release
	1957	Jack Elliott Sings, Volume 2Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 4 tracks A1John Henry A2Talking Blues B1San Francisco Blues B2Alabama Bound		1957

Album · 11

Album release groups, by first release date
Year	Title	Notes	First release
1957	Badmen, Heroes And Pirate Songs And BalladsSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 16 tracks A1Bold Turpin A2Pretty Boy Floyd A3Jim Fisk A4Jesse James A5Robin Hood and the Bold Pedlar A6Charles Giteau A7Billy the Kid A8Quantrell B1The Bold Princess Royal B2The Romantic Pirate B3Henry Martyn B4The Female Warrior B5Captain Kidd B6The Female Smuggler B7High Barbaree B8Bold Manning	Compilation	1957
1963	Hootenanny with Jack ElliottSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 10 tracks · 39:13 A1Mule Skinner Blues5:13 A2Cool Water4:23 A3Talking Miner2:55 A4Boll Weavil3:06 A5How Long Blues5:03 B1Salty Dog2:26 B2Tyin' Knots in the Devil's Tail2:36 B3Hobo's Lullaby4:17 B4Talking Sailor4:06 B5Rock Island Line5:08	Live	1963
1967	Jack ElliottSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 12 tracks · 28:57 A1More Pretty Girls Than One2:00 A2Roll On Buddy2:30 A3Death of John Henry2:30 A4Salty Dog Blues2:48 A5Talking Blues2:33 A6I'm Gonna Walk the Street in Glory1:46 B1Cigarettes & Whiskey2:00 B2Danville Girl2:45 B3Worried Man Blues3:33 B4San Francisco Bay Blues1:57 B5Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms2:32 B6I'm Going Down the Road2:03	Compilation	1967
1975	AmericaSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 28 tracks · 1:17:51 Disc 114 tracks · 39:49 A1Mule Skinner’s Blues4:10 A2How Long Blues3:33 A3Percious Jewel2:29 A4Death of John Henry2:34 A5Ain’t It a Shame1:58 A6East Virginia Blues2:53 A7Stern Old Bachelor2:52 B1Cigarettes & Whiskey2:03 B2The Cuckoo2:12 B3Salty Dog Blues2:50 B4I’m Going Down the Road2:05 B5Rich and Rambling Boy3:03 B6Death of Mr. Garfield5:22 B7I’m Gonna Walk the Street in Glory1:45 Disc 214 tracks · 38:02 C1Wreck on the Highway2:19 C2Portland Town2:13 C3Danville Girl2:46 C4The Tramp on the Street3:03 C5Worried Man Blues3:34 C6San Francisco Bay Blues1:59 C7900 Miles3:57 D1Hard Traveling3:25 D2More Pretty Girls Than One2:04 D3Freight Train2:31 D4Talking Blues2:36 D5I’m Sad and I’m Lonely2:31 D6Roll on Buddy2:34 D7Roll in My Sweet Baby’s Arms2:30	Compilation	1975
1989	Hard Travelin’: Songs by Woody Guthrie and OthersSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 25 tracks · 1:16:50 1Hard Travelin'2:38 2Grand Coulee Dam2:27 3New York Town3:39 4Tom Joad6:19 5Howdido1:34 6Talking Dust Bowl2:46 7This Land Is Your Land2:29 8Pretty Boy Floyd3:13 9Philadelphia Lawyer2:32 10Talking Columbia2:47 11Dust Storm Disaster2:51 12Riding In My Car2:00 131913 Massacre3:35 14So Long3:19 15Sadie Brown2:11 16East Virginia Blues3:43 17I Belong To Glasgow3:52 18The Cuckoo2:18 19Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms2:49 20South Coast4:07 21San Francisco Bay Blues2:01 22The Last Letter2:28 23Candyman2:46 24Tramp On The Street3:18 25Railroad Bill5:08	Compilation	1989
1994	Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers & Cowboy SongsSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 24 tracks · 1:07:56 1Do-Re-Me2:35 2Dead or Alive3:26 3Grand Coulee Dam2:42 4Dust Storm Disaster3:27 5I Ain't Got No Home2:20 6So Long (Its Been Good to Know Yuh)3:55 7T for Texas (Blue Yodel No. 1)3:41 8Waiting for a Train2:32 9Jimmie the Kid2:30 10Mother, the Queen of My Heart3:08 11In the Jailhouse Now2:36 12Whippin' That Old T.B.3:44 13Rusty Jiggs and Sandy Sam2:59 14Get Along, Little Dogies2:05 15Sadie Brown2:12 16Night Herding Song2:48 17Chisholm Trail2:20 18Fifteen Cents and a Dollar2:57 19Rocky Mountain Belle2:06 20Talking Blues2:18 21Diamond Joe3:23 22In the Willow Garden3:23 23I Ride an Old Paint2:22 24Jack O'Diamonds2:27	Compilation	1994
1995	Ramblin' JackSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 24 tracks · 1:13:56 1Talking Columbia Blues3:48 2Pretty Boy Floyd3:02 3Ludlow Massacre4:12 4Talking Miner Blues2:01 5Hard Traveling3:29 6So long, It's Been Good to know You3:00 7Talking Dustbowl Blues2:57 81913 Massacre3:41 9Rambling Blues2:46 10Talking Sailor Blues4:04 11San Francisco Bay Blues2:57 12Ol' Riley2:05 13The Boll Weevil3:09 14New York Town3:24 15Mule Skinner's Blues5:25 16East Texas Talking Blues2:36 17Dink's Song3:23 18It's Hard, Ain't it Hard3:24 19All Around the Water Tank2:00 20Mother's Not Dead2:06 21East Virginia Blues2:41 22Danville Girl2:57 23Rich and Rambling Boys2:49 24Roll on Buddy2:00	Compilation	1995
1998	The Essential Ramblin' Jack ElliottSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:17:23 1Roving Gambler3:36 2Will the Circle Be Unbroken2:38 3Diamond Joe2:58 4Guabi Guabi4:43 5Sowing on the Mountain2:15 6Roll on Buddy2:03 71913 Massacre3:51 8House of the Rising Sun3:28 9Shade of the Old Apple Tree2:41 10Black Snake3:26 11Portland Town1:59 12More Pretty Girls2:14 13San Francisco Bay Blues2:15 14Buffalo Skinners4:51 15Sadie Brown3:30 16Don't Think Twice It's All Right4:13 17Blind Lemon Jefferson3:55 18Ramblin' Round Your City2:35 19Talkin' Columbia3:50 20Tennessee Stud4:14 21Night Herding Song3:20 22Love Sick Blues3:17 23I Belong to Glasgow5:31	Compilation	1998
2000	The Ballad of Ramblin' JackSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 20 tracks · 59:37 1Intro by Johnny Cash0:25 2Muleskinner Blues5:05 3Cuckoo2:29 4Hard Travelin'1:44 5Railroad Bill3:32 6Buskin'0:33 7Pastures of Plenty2:43 8Rake & Ramblin' Boy2:46 9San Francisco Bay Blues2:05 10Talkin' Sailor Blues (By Candy Man)4:50 11Acne3:24 12Don't Think Twice3:38 13Take Me Home3:06 14If I Were a Carpenter4:49 15Car Song1:05 16900 Miles (Odetta)3:59 17Cup of Coffee4:47 18Introduction by President Clinton0:30 191913 Massacre4:28 20Cuckoo (reprise)3:39	Soundtrack	15 August 2000
2004	The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle Of Wight 1957Search Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 16 tracks · 38:55 1Intro0:50 2T For Texas4:08 3Howdido1:49 4I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say2:17 5Crash On The Highway2:17 6Candy Man1:29 7Ballad Of John Henry2:22 8Car Song2:14 9Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms3:35 10Old Blue2:49 11Don't You Leave Me Here1:35 12Why Oh Why1:54 13In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree3:25 14Oklahoma Hills2:12 15Rock Island Line5:17 16Closing / Railroad Bill0:42	Live	2004
2007	Vanguard Visionaries: Ramblin' Jack ElliottSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 10 tracks · 32:46 11913 Massacre3:50 2Will the Circle Be Unbroken2:37 3Don't Think Twice, It's All Right3:16 4John Handy2:26 5Guabi Guabi4:42 6House of the Rising Sun3:27 7Black Snake Moan3:25 8Roving Gambler3:34 9Diamond Joe2:57 10I Got a Woman2:32	Compilation	2007

Stats & PK

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Ramblin' Jack Elliott metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	17	76.4th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	37	92.1th
Studio albums	25	97.5th
Awards recorded	2	92.6th
Timeline events	27	96.1th
Recording span (years)	52	92.5th
Genres	4	84.7th

Awards & honours

Awards and honours, by year
Year	Award	Category	Result
—	National Medal of Arts		won
—	National Medal of Arts		won

Line-up

Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To	Role
The Rambling Boys(band)	—	present

Where this record comes from

portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramblin_Jack_Elliott_at_Knuckleheads_Saloon_Gospel_Lounge.JPG
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/41ed6db5-7a87-4535-b9f1-67ce54598662
discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/41ed6db5-7a87-4535-b9f1-67ce54598662
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q703905
genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q703905
seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Jack_Elliott
biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Jack_Elliott

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Wikidata: Q703905 · MusicBrainz: 41ed6db5-7a87-4535-b9f1-67ce54598662

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