Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie

Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie
Studio album by
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
ReleasedSeptember 1960
GenreFolk
LabelPrestige/EMI International
ProducerKenneth S. Goldstein
Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology
Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers
(1960) 		Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie
(1960) 		Songs to Grow On by Woody Guthrie, Sung by Jack Elliott
(1961)

Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in September 1960. It consists of songs written or well known as performed by Woody Guthrie.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Record Mirror[2]

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Richie Unterberger called the album "the recording that is most representative of his role in popularizing the work of his hero."[1]

Reissues

  • Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie was reissued along with Ramblin' Jack Elliott in 1989 as a double LP on the Fantasy label as Hard Travelin'. It was reissued on CD in 1991 with "I Love Her So/I Got a Woman" omitted.[3]

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Hard Traveling"
  2. "Grand Coulee Dam"
  3. "New York Town"
  4. "Tom Joad"
  5. "Howdido"
  6. "Talking Dust Bowl"
  7. "This Land is Your Land"

Side two

  1. "Pretty Boy Floyd"
  2. "Philadelphia Lawyer"
  3. "Talking Columbia"
  4. "Dust Storm Disaster"
  5. "Riding in My Car"
  6. "1913 Massacre"
  7. "So Long"

Personnel

References

  1. ^ a b Unterberger, Richie. "Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
  2. ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (19 February 1966). "Jack Elliott: Sings The Song Of Woody Guthrie" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 258. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  3. ^ Allmusic entry for Hard Travelin'