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Ramblin' Jack Elliott - 12th February 2005
Tuesday, June 19. 2007
Ramblin’ Jack and John May.
Upstairs at the Lansdown Arms, Lewes 22 February 2005
Photo: Mick Hawksworth
Recorded at the Thistle Hotel, Barbican, London. It was a bitterly cold day and Jack had just flown into town with his daughter for a short but intense British tour and to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Radio 2 Folk Awards. I was interviewing him for a piece in The Telegraph. We sat at a small table in the hotel restaurant and Jack regaled me with stories and songs. About Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. About sailing ships, cowboy poets and rodeo clowns. About Jack Kerouac and adventures in Ireland. Settle back and enjoy.
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Interview, MP3 Size: 37.0MB, Length: 01:09:59 - CDN Link - Direct Link
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Full text of Telegraph article here
http://hqinfo.blogspot.com
The full story behind this interview and my encounter with Jack can be found here:
http://hqinfo.blogspot.com/search?q=A+Ballad+of+Rambling+Jack+Elliott
Read about Aiyana Elliott’s documentary ‘The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack’ in ‘Legend of Folk: Jack and Aiyana Elliott Ramble On’ by Pam Grady.
http://www.reel.com/reel.asp?node=features/interviews/elliott
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