RAMBLIN’ JACK ELLIOTT
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (born Elliot Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931) is an American folk singer and performer. (More from Wikipedia)
Woody Guthrie became an active mentor for folksinger Ramblin’ Jack Elliott; because of his deteriorating health from the ravages of Huntington’s Disease, Bob Dylan and his own son Arlo Guthrie said that they actually learned about Guthrie’s music mostly through Elliott. Wikipedia says of this: “When asked about Arlo’s claim, Elliott said, ‘I was flattered. Dylan learned from me the same way I learned from Woody. Woody didn’t teach me. He just said, “If you want to learn something, just steal it — that’s the way I learned from Lead Belly.”’”
(March 2015)
