Apr 30, 2021 from Ireland: The Stirring Foot EP1 Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Podcast Interview) APRIL 30, 2021 THE STIRRING FOOT SEASON 1 EPISODE 1 "I first met international treasure Ramblin' Jack Elliott in Cookeville, Tennessee at Muddy Roots Music Festival in 2015. Jack turns 90 this year (2021) & he has been getting familiar with video calls while the current pandemic has restricted his travels. On March 18th, the day after St. Patrick's Day, I had an hour-long video call with Jack & I turned the audio of the call into Ep1 of 'The Stirring Foot'. Needless to say, the audio isn't of a studio-quality, it's a zoom call through the internet. But the stories transcend & shine through, after all, it's Ramblin' Jack Elliott...
Read MoreUncut Magazine (Apr 2021) RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT: In late 1961, I took a bus out to New Jersey to visit Woody Guthrie in hospital. This kid was there, quite an engaging guy – kinda pudgy and funny-looking, but nice. He told me he had all my recordings. It was Bob. Back in New York City, he’d ask me all about Woody, who I’d known since 1951.
Read Morefrom Andrew Dansby for Houston Chronicle (Aug 2020) When Matt Rollings describes his first encounter with folk legend Ramblin’ Jack Elliott the story sounds like a campfire ghost tale.
Read Morefrom Whippoorwill Arts (Aug 2020) Whippoorwill Arts Festival celebrates the musical accomplishments, extraordinary talent, community spirit, and creative soul of artists. Whippoorwill Arts Award Winners Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Brittany Haas, Snap Jackson, Kamara Thomas, Annie Staninec, Molly Tuttle and Keith Little announced.
Read Morefrom David Browne (10/10/2019) The Last Folksinger Ramblin’ Jack Elliott befriended Woody Guthrie, hung out with the Dead, and hit the road with Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue. At 88, this self-made cowboy is still on the move
Read Morefrom Glide Magazine (Jul 2019) Critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Todd Snider has extended his 2019 tour throughout the remainder of the year, bringing with him special guest Ramblin’ Jack Elliott on select dates.
Read MoreRolling Stone (July 2019) Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Swaps Songs and Stories One week shy of his 88th birthday, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott provided a lucky few with a precious performance, exchanging cowboy songs and swapping stories with one of his young disciples, the Lubbock, Texas Western song collector Andy Hedges.
Read More(from June 2019) The Rolling Thunder Revue is still unlike any tour ever conducted by a major rock star. It began when Dylan, months after the release of his 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks, wanted to stage the antithesis of the big money stadium tour he’d conducted with the Band the previous year.
Read More(from Sep 2018) As a sellout crowd jostled its way into the first big show of the 34th annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering on a late-January night in Elko, Nev., old friends backslapped each other and laughed about past gatherings. It was a rowdy, good-natured opening of what has become the premier celebration of The Cowboy Way.
Read MoreAlan Sheckter for The Grateful Web (May 2018) Ramblin' Jack Elliott & John Prine | Harris Center for the Arts | Folsom, CA | May 23rd, 2018 | photos by Alan Sheckter
Read MoreScott Bernstein (April 2018) The life of internet pioneer, political activist and Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, who passed away in February 2018, was celebrated at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Sunday night
Read MoreHighway in the Wind: a story from Arlo Guthrie PBS Special (2017)
Read Moreby Erika Goldring for American Songwriter (August 16, 2016) Rodney Crowell, Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Jack Ingram, Steve Earle, Joe Ely, and more honor Guy Clark’s legacy with a tribute concert at the Ryman Auditorium.
Read MoreDan McCue for Alternet (November 27, 2015) "I had been hearing about him for a couple of months. He'd been playing around the village, and somebody -- I don't remember who -- told me Woody Guthrie had a son who was really good," Fass remembered. "So I tried to put some feelers, to get him to come up, but for one reason or another, I didn't get his attention.”
Read MoreJuly 13, 2015 Letter From Nora Guthrie: Congratulations Jack!
Read MoreShantel Mitchell for NPR (2011) A matter-of-fact singer with credibility to spare — the man used to ride the rails with Woody Guthrie, for heaven's sake — Elliott continues to release albums, the latest of which is 2009's A Stranger Here. Look for Elliott to cover a broad range of material, and recruit some guests, for his performance at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival in Newport, R.I.
Read Moreby Barry Mazor for Wall Street Journal (2009) Ramblin' Jack Elliott, the last musical partner of Woody Guthrie, mentor and model for young Bob Dylan, and sonic grandfather of just about every scruffy-voiced folksinger in the Western world, is now 77. Unlike most people at that point in life, and well past 50 years in a performing career, he not only has a new CD, "A Stranger Here," out today on Anti-Records, but it's a release that marks a whole new turn in his repertoire -- toward the hard, "deep" blues of the Depression-era.
Read MoreBy Amanda Petrusich for Pitchfork, (JAN 2007) I Stand Alone is fleeting and intimate, focused, for the most part, on Elliott's salty vocals: His straining, soulful growls on Hoagie Carmichael's famed "Hong Kong Blues", the strongest track here, are full of spit and swing.
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