Ramblin' Jack Elliott - A Stranger Here
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Artist: Ramblin' Jack ElliottBrand: ELLIOTT,RAMBLIN JAC
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Music Label: Anti
Soundtracks:
- Rising High Water Blues
- Death Don't Have No Mercy
- Rambler's Blues
- Soul Of A Man
- Richland Women Blues
- Grinnin' In Your Face
- The New Strangers Blues
- Falling Down Blues
- How Long Blues
- Please Remember Me
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Music Review: What is the Soul of A Man?
Rating: 5 Stars
He's hot. He's cool. He's got the blues and he's 77 years old. Ramblin' Jack Elliot teams up with producer Joe Henry for this concept album of country blues songs from the Great Depression.
First, the concept--it's not only appropriate for Elliot's weathered voice and experience, but also strangely apropos for our current situation. While we're not in a depression right now, these songs catch those feelings of hardship and empathy incredibly well.
Second--the songs themselves. Nearly all of the tracks are midtempo blues tunes, acoustically arranged, with either piano or guitar anchoring them. Henry arranges these songs with a stark but textured simplicity that shows off the tunes, and provides the perfect bed for Elliot's vocals.
Standout tracks here are "Death Don't Have No Mercy," which sounds like a lost Tom Waits tune, and "Soul of A Man," which has Ramblin' Jack proclaiming the words with a cracked, weathered, passionate voice.
This album can serve as any of three things--an intro to the country blues of the 1930s, an enjoyable exploration of Ramblin' Jack's incredible interpretive skills, or just as incredibly fine, textured, rough-hewn, honest music.
This is rootsy American music at its finest. What is the soul of a man? Ramblin' Jack Elliot's is on display right here. Awesome.
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Description of A Stranger Here
Ramblin' Jack Elliott is one of folk music's mostenduring legends. An influence on everyone from Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger to the Rolling Stones and the Grateful Dead, Elliott used his charismatic cowboy image to bring his love of folk music to one generation after another. On A Stranger Here, Elliott takes on depression era blues songs that have a particular resonance in these turbulent times. With his world scarred voice wrapped around these dark songs of
dark days, Elliott has made his masterpiece, an album at once elegiac and defiant, that can stand beside great late career recordings by master singers like Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. With the fantastically sympathetic producer Joe Henry at the board, Ramblin
Jack delivers the album his legend has always
deserved, and finally proves not just that he is a great folk singer, but a great American singer.
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