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Ramblin' Jack Elliott

One of the great American musical treasures, Elliott has had a rich and storied life. As a budding
musician, Jack developed his voice under the tutelage of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, truck hitching
across the country off and on for a couple of years with Woody, carrying "only razors and guitars." The
pair eventually landed in the McCarthy-free enclave of Topanga Canyon CA in the 1950s, where Elliott
played for James Dean and later married Dean's former flame. On the other coast, Elliott was also a
fixture of the Greenwich Village scene, and once spent "three days and a lot of wine" listening to Jack
Kerouac read On the Road. But it is his relationship with a young Bob Dylan that Elliott is perhaps
most famous for, though back in the 1960s the up-and-coming Dylan was often mistakenly dubbed the
"son of Jack Elliott." Today Elliott simply states "Dylan learned from me the same way I learned from
Woody."