Jim Walsh - Thank You Jack. Presented by Magic Marc Productions

The Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454.
Saturday, June 19th, 2010. Doors open at 7 pm/Show begins at 8 pm. Tickets: $28 Advance, $30 Day of Show.
Ramblin' Jack Elliott with The Rolling Patches Revue and Special Guests.

Magic Marc Productions presents "After Woody Guthrie and Before Bob Dylan, There Was Ramblin' Jack Elliott."
Five-time Grammy-Award Nominee, Grammy-Award, Best Traditional Folk Album, 1995 South Coast, Grammy-Award, Best Traditional Blues Album, 2009 A Stranger Here and National Medal of the Arts, 1998 President Bill Clinton proclaiming "In giving new life to our most valuable musical traditions, Ramblin' Jack has himself become an American treasure."

Welcome for one night only and first local appearance in over 15 years, one of the last true links to the great folk traditions of this country, with over 40 albums under his belt and well over 50 years of Ramblin' the world, Ramblin' Jack is considered one of the country's legendary foundations of folk music.
Long before every kid in America wanted to play guitar - before Elvis, the Beatles or Led Zeppelin - Ramblin' Jack had picked it up and was passing it along. From Johnny Cash to Tom Waits, Beck to Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder to Bruce Springsteen, the Grateful Dead to the Rolling Stones, they all pay homage to Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

"Nobody I know-and I mean nobody-has covered more ground and made more friends and sung more songs than the fellow you are about to meet right now. He's got a song and a friend for every mile behind him. Say hello to my good buddy, Ramblin' Jack Elliott." Johnny Cash, 1969.

Thank You Jack (by Jim Walsh)

Thank you Jack for the sun and the moon
Thank you Jack for the stories and the tunes
Thank you Jack for the folk songs and the blues

Well I wrote this song on the porch for you
Cos I figured it's something that you might do
Ever since I first heard you when I was a kid

It was Renaldo and Clara at the movie shack
Punk rock and disco and all of that
And Dylan in white face and you and your smile and your cowboy hat

Well, too many of us we sit at home
With our fingers on the telephone
And flat-screen dreams of being someone else

But not you Jack, you've got some stones
Making your way all alone
So thank you for the courage and the path

And I know it's kind of cheeky to do
To try and go ahead and write a tune
That captures your spirit and your work

But the fact of the matter is I'm a newspaper man Jack
Here to say that I'm thankful that
I'm not here to write your obituary

Because the HE IS SURVIVED part by will be multifold
The list of friends and the list of foes
Yes, the HE IS SURVIVED BY part of Ramblin Jack Elliot's obituary will be like Noah's Ark

Two by two and two and two and two by two singing
Thank you Jack for the sun and the moon
Thank you Jack for the stories and the tunes
Thank you Jack for the folk songs and the blues

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