AVID Entertainment hits the ground running with the first release on its new imprint Avid Roots. Here we are searching for the very roots of Bob Dylan and find them in the work of the legendary singer Woody Guthrie and one of his earliest disciples Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.
The story of the young, unknown Dylan visiting the dying Guthrie in hospital is the stuff of legend and it is certainly obvious to those with ears that Woody handed over the key to the talking blues to the young pretender!
And maybe Ramblin’ Jack showed him some different ways to turn it! If you have been impressed with the young Dylan of Talkin’ New York Blues; 'Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream' ; 'Talkin World War 111 Blues' ; 'Talking Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues' or 'Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues' or indeed anything the great man has done then you need to listen to the men who helped make it all possible..... Woody Guthrie and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott!
CD1
1. Muleskinner Blues - Woody Guthrie
2. Take A Whiff On Me - Woody Guthrie
3. Worried Man Blues - Woody Guthrie
4. New York Town - Woody Guthrie
5. So Long It’s Been Good To Know You - Woody Guthrie
6. Gamblin’ Man - Woody Guthrie
7. Ida Red - Woody Guthrie
8. Poor Boy - Woody Guthrie
9. Talking Sailor Blues - Woody Guthrie
10. Billy The Kid - Woody Guthrie
11. Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie
12. Dead Or Alive - Woody Guthrie
13. Cocaine Blues - Woody Guthrie
14. Stackolee - Woody Guthrie
15. Sally Goodin - Woody Guthrie
16. Blowin’ Down That Old Dusty Road - Woody Guthrie
17. Talking Fishing Blues - Woody Guthrie
18. Jesse James - Woody Guthrie
19. Sinking Of The Rueben James - Woody Guthrie
20. Train 45 - Woody Guthrie
21. Little Black Train - Woody Guthrie
22. This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie
23. Grand Coolie Dam - Woody Guthrie
24. Git Along Little Doggies - Woody Guthrie
25. Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie
26. 1913 Massacre - Woody Guthrie
27. Stewball - Woody Guthrie
28. Talking Columbia Blues - Woody Guthrie
CD2
1. Pretty Boy Floyd - Jack Elliott
2. Jesse James - Jack Elliott
3. Charles Gaiteau - Jack Elliott
4. Alabammy Bound - Jack Elliott
5. Good Morning Blues - Jack Elliott
6. Talking Blues - Jack Elliott
7. Rocky Mountain Belle - Jack Elliott
8. San Francisco Bay Blues - Jack Elliott
9. 15 Cents - Jack Elliott
10. Muleskinner Blues - Jack Elliott
11. The Death Of John Henry - Jack Elliott
12. Talking Miner Blues - Jack Elliott
13. Pretty Boy Floyd - Jack Elliott
14. Old Blue - Jack Elliott
15. Rambling Blues - Jack Elliott
16. Streets Of Loredo - Jack Elliott
17. Boll Weevil - Jack Elliott
18. Talking Columbia Blues - Jack Elliott
