Trivia

Studio Records

1955: Woody Guthrie's Blues 1957: Jack Elliot Sings 1958: Jack Takes the Floor 1958: Ramblin' Jack Elliott in London EMI Records 33 SX 1166 recorded 5/7 November 1958 1960: Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers 1960: Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie 1961: Songs to Grow On by Woody Guthrie, Sung by Jack Elliott (Folkways Records) 1961: Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Prestige/Folklore) 1962: Country Style (Prestige/Folklore) 1964: Jack Elliott (Vanguard) 1968: Young Brigham (Reprise) 1970: Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks (Reprise) 1981: Kerouac's Last Dream (Folk Freak/re-release by Conträr Musik, Germany) 1995: South Coast (Red House) 1998: Friends of Mine (HighTone) 1999: The Long Ride (HighTone) 2006: I Stand Alone (ANTI-) 2009: A Stranger Here (ANTI-).

Graduated from Midwood High School in Brooklyn, New York in 1949.

He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998.

Was married 5 times.

Compilations Records

1963: Talking Woody Guthrie (Topic) 1964: Muleskinner (Topic) 1976: The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott (Vanguard) 1989: Hard Travelin' (reissue of Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie and Ramblin' Jack Elliott) 1989: Talking Dust Bowl: The Best of Ramblin' Jack Elliott 1990: Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Spider John Koerner, U. Utah Phillips: Legends of Folk (Red House) 1990: Jack Elliott Plus / Jack Elliott 1995: Me and Bobby McGee (reissue of Young Brigham and Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks) 1995: Jack Elliott: Ramblin' Jack, The Legendary Topic Masters 1999: Ramblin' Jack Elliott: Early Sessions 2000: Best of the Vanguard Years 2004: The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957 2004: The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957 2007: Vanguard Visionaries.

Live Records

1957: The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957 1962: Jack Elliott at the Second Fret.

Records with Derroll Adams

1957: The Rambling Boys 1963: Roll On Buddy 1969: Folkland Songs 1969: Riding in Folkland 1975: America.

He first became infatuated with the cowboy lifestyle as a young boy seeing rodeo demonstrations in Madison Square Garden.

He ran away from home at the age of fifteen to join Col. Jim Eskew's Rodeo, the only rodeo east of the Mississippi, and traveled with them for three months before his parents tracked him down and brought him home.

He attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn and graduated in 1949.

His father was a surgeon and expected Jack to follow in his footsteps.

The character of Al Cody (Adam Driver) in Inside Llewyn Davis was based on Jack.