Ramblin' jack elliott

Elliott was Woody Guthrie's protégé

Ramblin Jack was best man at ECP Ring Leader Cordley Coit's wedding.

Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Born Brooklyn, New York as Elliot Charles Adnopoz August 1, 1931 saw his first rodeo watchiing Gene Autry and the blacklit bulls at Madison Square Garden. Elliott left home at 14 years old, hitched a rig to Washington, DC where he joined the Rodeo and became a cowboy. Eliott said "It ain't where you're from that counts, it's where you're going." Woody and Jack braved the trail to California in 1954. Their destination was Topanga Canyon, a hideout for the greatest outlaw desperadoes of the 1950's — left wing artists and/or intellectuals waiting out the McCarthyist storm. Elliott was Woody Guthrie's protégé - then came Bob Dylan, doing the Guthrie-Elliott thing, called a poor man's Elliott (Jack, in turn, had been called a poor man's Guthrie) Ramblin Jack's Discography

Jack is rambling about his plans that include hooking up with Arlo Guthrie and a rodeo in Pitsburgh, Pa.

RAMBLIN JACK ELLIOTT

Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Born Brooklyn, New York as Elliot Charles Adnopoz August 1, 1931 saw his first rodeo watchiing Gene Autry and the blacklit bulls at Madison Square Garden. Elliot left home at 14 years old, hitched a rig to Washington, DC where he joined the Rodeo and became a cowboy. Eliott said "It ain't where you're from that counts, it's where you're going." Woody and Jack braved the trail to California in 1954. Later Jack influenced Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, and many others.

"I suppose I taught Bobby a few of my songs. Those old VD songs by Woody that nobody wanted the young kids to know, he picked them up from me..."quoted in Robert Shelton, No Direction Home, London 1987, p. 104.

• VD BLUES (as performed by BOB DYLAN, 1961)
• VD GUNNER'S BLUES (LANDLADY) (as performed by BOB DYLAN, 1961)
• VD SEAMAN'S LAST LETTER (from BOB DYLAN's McKenzie manuscripts, 1961)
• VD WALTZ (as performed by BOB DYLAN, 1961

Ramblin' Jack Elliott fans of original American folk music can contact
Lee Olsen at 615-327-4646 V.P. of Keith Case and Associates
1025 17th Avenue South 2nd floor
Nashville, TN 37212
615-327-4646
615-327-4949 Fax
Lee@keithcase.com

Lee Olsen - Vice President/Agent
Growing up in Pennsylvania , Lee Olsen began a career in music playing mandolin in his own bluegrass band, Whetstone Run, for fifteen years. He later formed his talent booking agency, Lee Olsen & Associates, representing such acts as the Fairfield Four (whom he also manages), Red Clay Ramblers and the Seldom Scene, among others. Joining Keith Case & Associates in 1989, Lee was named Vice President of the company in 1995. Lee is the responsible agent for the following bands: The Fairfield Four, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, Ralph Stanley II, The Seldom Scene, and Slaid Cleaves.

Music industry veteran Keith Case has presented the finest acts in bluegrass and roots music for over thirty years with a professional career that began in Denver , CO in 1970. As a talent agent, manager and promoter he has represented legendary singer-songwriters and musicians (John Hartford, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Nashville Bluegrass Band) and has been instrumental in breaking notable new acts that went on to amass both popular and critical acclaim (Alison Krauss and Union Station, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Robert Earl Keen). His booking agency, Keith Case & Associates, is Nashville 's premiere traditional music agency and continues to present the foremost artists which lead the genre.