''Country Style'' is an album by
American
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folk musician
Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1962.
Reception
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."
Reissues
*''Country Style'' was reissued on CD by
Fantasy Records in 1999 along with ''
Jack Elliott at the Second Fret''.
[ Allmusic entry for ''Country Style/Live''.Accessed June 12, 2009.]
Track listing
All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.
Side one
#"
Mean Mama Blues" (Charles Mitchell,
Moon Mullican)
#"Low and Lonely" (
Fred Rose)
#"
Wreck of the Old '97
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Henry Clay Work)
#"
Old Shep
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" (
Red Foley)
#"
Wabash Cannonball" (
A. P. Carter)
#"Brown Eyes"
#"
Lovesick Blues
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Cliff Friend
Cliff Friend (October 1, 1893 – June 27, 1974) was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including " Lovesick Blues", "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Dow ...
,
Irving Mills
Irving Harold Mills (born Isadore Minsky; January 16, 1894 – April 21, 1985) was an American music publisher, musician, lyricist, and jazz artist promoter. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Goody Goodwin and Joe Primrose.
Personal
Mills was ...
)
Side two
#"Arthritis Blues" (Butch Hayes)
#"Take Me Back and Love Me One More Time"
#"
Tennessee Stud" (
Jimmy Driftwood
James Corbitt Morris (June 20, 1907 – July 12, 1998), known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk music songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and " Tennessee Stu ...
)
#"Those Brown Eyes" (
Alan Arkin
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, Bill Carey,
Erik Darling,
Woody Guthrie
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)
#"
Detour" (
Paul Westmoreland Paul "Okie Paul" Westmoreland (September 19, 1916 – June 21, 2005) was a musician, songwriter, and disc jockey in Sacramento, California.
Born in Tyler Texas, he moved to California during the Okie migration.Pew, "Route 66": "From the status of ...
)
#"
Soldier's Last Letter" (
Ernest Tubb,
Redd Stewart
Henry Ellis Stewart (May 27, 1923 – August 2, 2003), better known as Redd Stewart, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist who co-wrote " Tennessee Waltz" with Pee Wee King in 1948.
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Personnel
*Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, harmonica, guitar
;Technical
*Hal Lustig - recording
*
Don Schlitten - design, photography
References
External links
Ramblin' Jack Elliott Illustrated discography
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1962 albums
Prestige Records albums
Ramblin' Jack Elliott albums