Ramblin' Jack Elliott sings South Coast on 5/4/07

[Infamissus]

Does any one have the original recording?



[soundman449]

I was his driver when he came to the Glasgow International Folk Festival in 1995, he signed a "South Coast" CD for me (which I'll never part with, so don't even ask!). He's a hell of a good guy, listened to me play my music and seemed to genuinely enjoy it. I like to think he did anyway.

[Topikatintalo]

"I won my wife in a card game" Hell, yeah!

[quiethampsters]

most amazing performer, seen him once in the flesh, gives me chills, where can i get this cussin album!? checked out all the record shops in town, scowerd the internet! WHERE IS IT!??

[JoesDynamo]

His CD, Friends of Mine, is just great, duets with others, like Townes, Jerry Jeff, Emylou, etc., his song, Me And Billy The Kid is the best I've ever heard, ever, not to be forgotten.

The man introduced Bob Dylan to Woody Guthrie, just before Woody died, the man is a legend in his own time.

[ChristopherLockett]

Glad you posted this - I was at this screening/performance. Was wearing a Peterbilt (big rig trucks) hat from a TV show I was shooting at the time. Jack peered out around the line of folks wanting to shake his hand. Peered around again. Finally he said: "You drive a Pete?" "No sir. But I do shoot a TV show where they work on Petes an awful lot." "I used to drive 'em all. Petes, Kens. Wasn't research, I needed the work."

We talked more about trucks and guitars and I was deeply satisfied.

[singwith]

thanks for posting cool story about Jack.

[ChristopherLockett]

Thanks for posting the video!

[vardamin]

ramblin jack is a scary drunk. I've met him and I know he'll never read this comment, so there....... Oh, but he does not drink 'Wild Turkey' anymore, only 'Jim Beam'.

[ssmark123]

One of Jack's best. Like all his covers, he makes it his own.

[Kikalani]

Ramblin Jack is a true American treasure. Great storyteller.

[HailDanzig]

Does anyone have the chords? I can make most of them out, but I'm a beginner. :-\

[rymansimon]

he is using a capo on the second fret..

the chords shapes are em,am,em,c,b7,em,c,b7,em..basi­cally

he seems to add little ramblin licks here and there..but this should help

[sunroadsand]

It's a fine version of a classic I've seen RJE perform several times, from San Diego State Backdoor to Mill Valley's Sweetwater and Petaluma's Mystic Theater. But what happened to the end of the song here? (I have driven through Jolon, or what is left of it, leaving Hwy 101 nr King City heading toward Big Sur through Hunter Liggett military reservation. It's an interesting drive to say the least.

[aclbean]

I was told I could play his custom guitar you see here if I was really careful. He went to sleep early in our guest bedroom because he had an early flight the next day. Around 1:30 AM I brought it out to my dad's garage where his music studio is and started tuning it up. I was so excited to say I played his guitar I was freaking out and then I broke the D string.

[aclbean]

Jack stayed at my house this weekend. He's a super nice guy. My dad, Gene LaFond, knows him through Bob Dylan and drove him from the Twin Cities to Hibbing for Dylan Days. After that was done with his gig there he came to stay at my house for two nights. He played this song and Don't Think Twice on my couch. It was unreal.

[saullouis]

I am jealous. Been a fan since '59 or '60.

[saullouis]

He does a tune called cup of coffee, and it has something to do with sleeping on someones couch, but keeping one foot on the floor, cause thats his clutch foot. "If I put that on the couch Ill never get up". Ahhhh.

[lolasphere]

excellent! thank you very much for posting

[singwith]

you are very welcome!

[gymhourfee]

Get some of his C.D.s!

The documentary made tells the story of this living legend. At 20 yrs old Jack toured with the great Woody Guthrie, woody 40, they cruised around the country in car, Played here and there...

After a show in Kelowna, July 25 04 he came out to a pub and told us some stories of the old days....God bless jack, hope all is well, Robert smith said to say hello. Like the Corb Lund tune you played on!

Shane Mario

[chinesecommunist]

Holy hell...

Outstanding.

[haytossr]

On the same trip, my family had a friend who was renting a cabin from Henry Miller on Partington Ridge. It was next door to Miller's cabin and they took us on a tour. My big recollection of Millers place (he was away and never moved back) was seeing a book called "Sex Over 60". It had all blank pages.

Sorry the post is backwards...

[haytossr]

The Barrancas, as in "...the lion still rules the barranca..." are the ravines running down the west side of the mountains, the "lion" is the California mountain lion, Felis concolor, or cougar or puma and are still common in the area.

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[singwith]

Many thanks for the story. I'm not sure I understand everything or not but it is always nice to know the behind story.

[haytossr]

It is about Big Sur (Big South) and Ross was the descendant of an old Big Sur family. Jolon (spelled Cholon in some versions), where he won his wife in a card game, is east of Big Sur in the Hunter Liggett military reservation. There is nothing there now but i assume there was once at least a saloon.

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[haytossr]

I first heard "South Coast" in 1960 at Deegen's Big Sur Inn, sung by a lady who had worked at Deegens' the previous year and organized a bunch of us to rent the creek house for a week.  The lady who wrote it, along with others, (Lillian Ross) had just died the year before.

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[haytossr]

I first heard "South Coast" in 1960 at Deegen's Big Sur Inn, sung by a lady who had worked at Deegens' the previous year and organized a bunch of us to rent the creek house for a week. The lady who wrote it, along with others, (Lillian Ross) had just died the year before.

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[singwith]

Do you know who wrote "South Coast"? I thought Mr. Jack recorded the song in 90s?

[singwith]

Sorry, that lady wrote the song, right?

[singwith]

You are welcome. Ex- pooler, Snuffy

[ejg4]

His real name is Elliot Charles Adnopoz of Eastern European Ashkenazi extraction. He followed Woody Guthrie around for years, copied everything about him, then set out to make a career. Forerunner of the sexual revolution ( i.e. the assault on monogamy), the original "Jewish Cowboy".

[singwith]

Thanks for the follow up!

[veganbear]

this is great - has this been released on an album?

[singwith]

Yes, I think it's on one of his recent CD.

[forestry4fun]

I've been Ramblin Jack fan since older brother turned me on to him in 1969. He brought home "Young Brigham" and that was all she wrote. I still love to sit with the lights off and listen to 912 greens.

Did you ever stand and shiver, just because you were lookin at a river?

[saullouis]

I first heard Jack in about 1962. I went out and bought a Gibson j45. Never had no regrets. I havent much talent but Jack was my idol. Heard him about 2 years ago in Albany NY. He did a really great job. I know for a few years he kind of didnt do too well. But recently just great. After the show I went up to him and told him Id been hearing him for 40 years. He told me to have my ears examined.

[singwith]

Thank you for the thoughts. I only saw him twice which this one and he played in UCLA in 2006. Btw, he is coming back to UCLA in 2008.

[blandmangopatterson]

thanks for sharing

[singwith]

You are very welcome!

[davyjaysparrow]

singwith,

I do dutifully declare from this day forth that you should post as much Ramblin Jack as is humanly or beastly possible.

Thanks,

Davy

[singwith]

Thank you for waiting. I uploaded it. Please check it out!

[stanjarin]

Yes, please post!

There's a discussion group pertaining to Jack on yahoo at groups dot yahoo dot com slash ramblinjack

Last saw Jack when he toured Australia 3 years ago.

[singwith]

Please wait few days, I'll post the video!

[singwith]

Hi DjonPompe, thanks for the tips. I have one more clip if anyone want to see it, let me know.

[DjonPompe]

That's "South Coast" He's singing about the mountains south of Monterey, California. Robinson Jeffers country.

Jack's getting a little stiff, old, but his voice is much stronger than it was for a few years. Wish he was really my role model..I've been hacking away at his music for forty years, while operating a swivel chair.

[saullouis]

45 years for me. It was 1962 and I was in high school. Railroad Bill was the 1st song I learned, then candy man, then the cookoo. Ive got a lot of other musical heroes now, but he reamains one.

[singwith]

I think Bob Dylan sings that songs too that all I know.