The record cover was mysterious, but not in an ominous way. It showed a character with certain careless ease, rakish looking, a handsome saddle tramp. He's dressed like a cowboy.
1. San Francisco Bay Blues 2. Ol’Riley 3. The Boll Weevil 4. Bed Bug Blues 5. New York Town 6. Old Blue 7. Grey Goose 8. Mule Skinner’s Blues 9. East Texas Talking Blues 10. Cocaine 11. Dink’s Song 12. Black Baby 13. Salty Dog 14. Brother Won’t You Join in the Line? 15. There are Better Things to do(Ewan MaColl&Peggy Seeger with Ramblin’Jack)
His tone of voice is sharp, focused and piercing. He drawls and he's so confident it makes me sick. All that and he plays the guitar effortlessly in a fluid flat-picking perfected style.
Elliott, who'd been born ten years before me, had actually traveled with Guthrie, learned his songs and style firsthand and had mastered it completely.