Country Style (album)

Not to be confused with Dean "Tex" Martin: Country Style.
Country Style
Studio album by
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Released1962
GenreFolk
LabelPrestige/Folklore
ProducerKenneth S. Goldstein
Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology
Jack Elliott at the Second Fret
(1962) 		Country Style
(1962) 		Jack Elliott
(1964)
Alternative Cover
Cover of the reissue of Country Style and Jack Elliott at the Second Fret

Country Style is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1962.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. wrote the album "On Country Style, one can see the rambling doctor's son come into his own as a performer... Elliott steps away from the past to carve out an irreverent, slap-happy style that showed that folk music, when handled without studious care, could be a helluva lot of fun... Country Style represents the first flowering of Elliott's talent and turning point for folk traditionalism."[1]

Reissues

Track listing

All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.

Side one

  1. "Mean Mama Blues" (Charles Mitchell, Moon Mullican)
  2. "Low and Lonely" (Fred Rose)
  3. "Wreck of the Old '97" (Henry Clay Work)
  4. "Old Shep" (Red Foley)
  5. "Wabash Cannonball" (A. P. Carter)
  6. "Brown Eyes"
  7. "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills)

Side two

  1. "Arthritis Blues" (Butch Hayes) [citation needed]
  2. "Take Me Back and Love Me One More Time"
  3. "Tennessee Stud" (Jimmy Driftwood)
  4. "Those Brown Eyes" (Alan Arkin, Bill Carey, Erik Darling, Woody Guthrie)
  5. "Detour" (Paul Westmoreland)
  6. "Soldier's Last Letter" (Ernest Tubb, Redd Stewart)

Personnel

  • Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, harmonica, guitar
Technical

References

  1. ^ a b Lankford, Jr., Ronnie D. "Country Style > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
  2. ^ Allmusic entry for Country Style/Live. Accessed June 12, 2009.