Jack Elliott & Derroll Adams America 2LP Joker Records Italy EXCELLENT VINYL
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Jack Elliott
& Derroll Adams
America
Joker Records SM_3767/2 2LP 1975 (Italy)
Adams was born Derroll Lewis Thompson in Portland, Oregon. At 16, he served in the Army and later in the Coast Guard. He was a tall, lanky banjo player with a deep voice. He was busking around the West Coast music scene in the 1950s when he met Ramblin' Jack Elliott in the Topanga Canyon area of Los Angeles. The two traveled around and recorded albums, among them Cowboys and The Rambling Boys.
According to legend, Adams and Elliott would go in the studio with whatever they had, which may have included whiskey and marijuana, and they recorded whatever they felt like recording on the spur of the moment. This style of recording was probably more prevalent in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s—the result is that the recording is loose around the edges but preserves some of the spontaneity and vigor of a live performance. It is a performative, rather than a compositional, style.
His recording career was somewhat uneven, and like Elliott he was better known for whom he influenced—Donovan, among others—than for his own art. With Elliott, he had gone to England to play live and record. Elliott went back, and Adams stayed. He took Donovan, who had been playing around the UK with Gypsy Dave, under his wing as a sort of protégé; as a result, the influence of American traditional music can be distinctly heard in Donovan's earlier work, including the song "Epistle To Derroll. (Also see D. A. Pennebaker's Dont Look Back).
Adams died in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2000. His collaboration with Elliott left behind a body of influence that prevails today.
Tracklist
Folkland Songs
A1 Mule Skinner's Blues
A2 How Long Blues
A3 Precious Jewel
A4 Death Of John Henry
A5 Ain't It A Shame
A6 East Virginia Blues
A7 Stern Old Bachelor
B1 Cigarettes & Whiskey
B2 The Cuckoo
B3 Salty Dog Blues
B4 I'm Going Down To The Road
B5 Rich And Rambling Boy
B6 Death Of Mr. Garfield
B7 I'm Gonna Walk The Street In Glory
Riding In Folkland
A1 Wreck On The Highway
A2 Portland Town
A3 Danville Girl
A4 The Tramp On The Street
A5 Worried Man Blues
A6 San Francisco Bay Blues
A7 900 Miles
B1 Hard Traveling
B2 More Pretty Girls Than One
B3 Freight Train
B4 Talking Blues
B5 I'm Sad And I'm Lonely
B6 Roll On Buddy
B7 Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
2 X Vinyl is NEAR MINT, in paper inner sleeves in a gatefold picture sleeve in VERY GOOD condition
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