Jack Elliott - Jack Takes The Floor (1958)

In the engine of modern music, this is one of the spark plugs. Jack Elliott Takes The Floor (later released as Muleskinner) was recorded off the cuff at London\'s Topic Records. Jack talks us into each song with wry, leisurely intros that are worth the price of admission alone. His guitar technique was an education to the hard-stumming \"folk singers\" of the time, but also impacted on later popular music. The album pulls together a pantheon of previously little-known source - including Jesse Fuller, Reverend Gary David, field holler, and prison blues - and is remarkably hard edged. The raw, unadorned beauty of \"Dinky\'s Song\" och \"Black Baby\" remain spine-chilling highlights. \"Mule Skinner\'s Blues\" and \"San Francisco Bay Blues\" bacame hallmarks of Elliott\'s work. Jack played frequently with Woodie Guthrie in tie 1950s. Having settled in New York in 1961, he met a kid in Guthrie\'s hospital room who was soon to have a poster annoucning his own first NYC gig: \"Son of Jack Elliott - Bob Dylan\". In chronicles, Dylan desribes first hearing ... Takes the floor: \"I felt like I\'d been into sudden hell ... His voice leaps all over the room ... and he plays the guitar effortlessy in a fluid flat-picking perfect style...\" Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards have all also acknowledged Jack\'s influence. Little wonder: this release is still as engaging as it was in 1958. (Src: SJar, 1001 Albums you must hear before you die)

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Big swede2 (2008-06-22)

1001 thanks!