Well there's a couple of days to go yet (as I write this). You were a lot closer than his own daughter, though. In the summary of her 2000 movie "The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack", Aiyana Elliot stated that he was born in 1932. Records show that she was wrong about the year. . She should have checked with you first, because you got the year right. He will indeed be 90 years old THIS year (on August 1, 2021).
I knew Jack back then. In the mid 60's I was a young up-and-coming guitarist involved in the folk music scene playing backup guitar for various famous folk acts of the time. I had an apartment in Greenwich Village. Jack used to like to come over and visit and we'd sit around, get high, and play music. However, if there happened to be any woman present he would strip down buck naked and continue on like nothing had changed. Nobody took any particular offense. It was the swinging 60s and we continued to do whatever it was we were doing. Singing, playing, drinking, smoking this and that, and having a right good time. Surprisingly I don't remember any sex being involved. Just some people enjoying themselves along with a naked Ramblen Jack.
I am just "discovering" Ramblin' Jack for the first time. I was 3 when this was recorded. Feel like I just found a missing link in my musical pedigree. It's so exciting to find all this great music from one of the seminal masters of Folk. Thank you for posting!
I hear him sing this last week in LA. Touring at 91 years of age...He is a national treasure. So was the late Malvina Reynolds (seen briefly in the video). I saw her in the seventies in Berkeley.
@@jessimerrill6579 I just spent 6 hours learning calling card on the piano. Great song. One of the most effective key changes in modern music is the pia o lead. Amazing. Public enemy no. 1.... dont get me going!! His acoustic work is brilliant. A bright star that burned out waaaaay to soon.
0:41 I got the blues from my baby left me by the San Francisco Bay, The ocean liner's gone so far away. Didn't mean to treat her so bad, she was the best girl I ever have had, She said goodbye, I can take a cry, I want to lay down and die. I ain't got a nickel and I ain't got a lousy dime. If she don't come back, I'm going to lose my mind. If she ever gets back to stay, it's going to be another brand new day, Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay. (Go on Andy) Sit down looking from my back door, Wondering which way to go, The woman I'm so crazy about, she don't love me no more. Think I'll catch me a freight train, 'cause I'm feeling blue, And ride all the way to the end of the line, thinking only of you. Meanwhile, in another city, Just about to go insane, Thought I heard my baby, Lord, the way she used to call my name. If I ever get her back to stay, it's going to be another brand new day, Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay, Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay, Said I'm Walking with my baby down by the San Francisco Bay.
Ol jack reinvented himself, swinging and singing free! He sure had a way with a song for that very reason. Still picking and singing in his 90's. Him and my boy Willie Nelson
Loved this song. But I was pleasantly surprised to see the Great Pete Seeger in this clip. Another of my folk hero’s of my teen years in the 60s. I would have been 18 when this was recorded. Halcyon years!
Dylan has written great songs, but (in my opinion, so who cares?) he stole Ramblin' Jack's performance style. Both Dylan and Elliot owed much to Woody Guthrie.
“The Bucket 3” (myself on Tenor Banjo) sang it in 1966 on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour. Guitarist, Kirk Roberts, edited a video of it onto his RU-vid Video “Through The Artist Eye - Quatzecotle” as part of his life as an Artist.
Just arrive in SF. Literally sitting in my hotel as work asked me to move here. Can't wait to see what opportunities this city can bring me. Had to get jack to come along.
Welcome, Kite. Walk it - every valley is a new country. If you've got the rent covered there's plenty of free stuff and when the firefighters finish, that west wind will clear the smoke in a stroke . Soon (2021, we think), the masks will come off and you'll meet the city face to face - and among them, you'll find yourself family.
If you’re still there 2 years later you could visit the home of long dead Jesse Fuller (who wrote this) 1679 11th St. Oakland and pay tribute to the genius that wrote the song!
I always think of our own Donovan when I her Ramblin' Jack. I'm not at all sure why, but I doubt either would be offended if they knew If you don't know who Donovan is, Google up 'Season Of The Witch'. Lots of love to you from my kitchen, here in the UK Midlands. X
