Kerouac's Last Dream
Kerouac's Last Dream | ||||
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Studio album by Ramblin' Jack Elliott | ||||
Released | 1981 | |||
Recorded | April 24–25, 1980 | |||
Studio | Tonstudio, St. Blasien, Northeim, West Germany | |||
Genre | Folk | |||
Length | 70:07 | |||
Label | Folk Freak | |||
Producer | Carsten Linde (Barbara Dodge) | |||
Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology | ||||
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Alternative Cover | ||||
Cover of the 1997 reissue of the LP | ||||
Kerouac's Last Dream is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1981.[1]
In his liner notes, Elliott writes "I have been asked, sometimes, why I don't learn new songs. These are old ones and I have sung them for a long time. They are good and I think they shall always be good."
Kerouac's Last Dream was reissued on CD in 1997 on the Appleseed label with additional material from the same 1980 sessions for a German LP release.[2]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Music critic William Ruhlman, writing for AllMusic, stated: "Ramblin' Jack Elliott is not primarily a recording artist, he's a folksinger, and these are the songs he sings."[1]
Michael Perryl of No Depression wrote: "The bare-bones best of Kerouac’s Last Dream? All those stories. We may have little in common with buffalo skinners, massacred miners, cowboys, and World War I foot soldiers, or even the folkies and beats of “912 Greens”, but when Ramblin’ Jack sings their stories, I am refreshed to find some universal resonance with travelers who have started our stories for us, rather than hearing one more time that we’re all jes’ good ol’ boys and girls livin’ fer Friday night. Kerouac’s Last Dream is a simple, solid collection…unadorned and necessary, y’might even say."[2]
Track listing
Original track listing
- "Buffalo Skinners" (Traditional)
- "Pretty Boy Floyd" (Woody Guthrie)
- "Cup of Coffee" (Jack Elliott)
- "Roving Gambler" (Traditional)
- "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Fred Rose)
- "The Cuckoo" (Traditional)
- "Talkin' Fishin'" (Guthrie)
- "1913 Massacre" (Guthrie)
- "Carpenter"
- "912 Greens" (Elliott)
Reissue track listing
- "Pretty Boy Floyd" (Woody Guthrie) – 4:00
- "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Fred Rose) – 3:11
- "Freight Train Blues" (Traditional) – 3:43
- "Talkin' Fishin'" (Guthrie) – 3:36
- "Roving Gambler" (Traditional) – 3:50
- "The Cuckoo" (Traditional) – 3:40
- "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 3:40
- "Soldiers Last Letter" (Ernest Tubb, Redd Stewart) – 3:04
- "1913 Massacre" (Guthrie) – 5:04
- "Buffalo Skinners" (Traditional) – 5:15
- "Night Herding Song" (Traditional 2:51
- "Mean Mama Blues" (Mitchell & Mulligan) – 2:25
- "I Threw It All Away" (Dylan) – 3:42
- "Detour" (Paul Westmoreland) – 2:13
- "Ridin' Down the Canyon" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette) – 5:33
- "Cup of Coffee" (Jack Elliott) – 4:10
- "912 Greens" (Elliott) – 10:10
Personnel
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, guitar
- Technical
- Günter Pauler - engineer
- Jerken Diederich - cover design
- Harmut Rosen - cover photography
References
- ^ a b c Ruhlman, William. "Kerouac's Last Dream > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
- ^ a b Perry, Michael (November–December 1997). "Review: Kerouac's Last Dream". No Depression. Archived from the original on 2012-10-03.
External links
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott Discography
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- Woody Guthrie's Blues
- Jack Elliot Sings
- Jack Takes the Floor
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott in London
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers
- Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie
- Songs to Grow On by Woody Guthrie, Sung by Jack Elliott
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Country Style
- Jack Elliott
- Young Brigham
- Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks
- Kerouac's Last Dream
- South Coast
- Friends of Mine
- The Long Ride
- I Stand Alone
- A Stranger Here
- The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Best of the Vanguard Years
- The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957
- The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957
- Vanguard Visionaries