Kerouac's Last Dream

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Kerouac's Last Dream - Wikipedia

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Kerouac's Last Dream

Studio album by

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Released

1981

Recorded

April 24–25, 1980

Studio

Tonstudio, St. Blasien, Northeim, West Germany

Genre

Folk

Length

70:07

Label

Folk Freak

Producer

Carsten Linde (Barbara Dodge)

Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology

The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott
(1976)

Kerouac's Last Dream
(1981)

South Coast
(1995)

Alternative Cover

Cover of the 1997 reissue of the LP

Kerouac's Last Dream is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1981.^[1]

In his liner notes, Elliott writes "I have been asked, sometimes, why I don't learn new songs. These are old ones and I have sung them for a long time. They are good and I think they shall always be good."

Kerouac's Last Dream was reissued on CD in 1997 on the Appleseed label with additional material from the same 1980 sessions for a German LP release.^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Music critic William Ruhlman, writing for AllMusic, stated: "Ramblin' Jack Elliott is not primarily a recording artist, he's a folksinger, and these are the songs he sings."^[1]

Michael Perryl of No Depression wrote: "The bare-bones best of Kerouac’s Last Dream? All those stories. We may have little in common with buffalo skinners, massacred miners, cowboys, and World War I foot soldiers, or even the folkies and beats of “912 Greens”, but when Ramblin’ Jack sings their stories, I am refreshed to find some universal resonance with travelers who have started our stories for us, rather than hearing one more time that we’re all jes’ good ol’ boys and girls livin’ fer Friday night. Kerouac’s Last Dream is a simple, solid collection…unadorned and necessary, y’might even say."^[2]

Track listing

Original track listing

"Buffalo Skinners" (Traditional)
"Pretty Boy Floyd" (Woody Guthrie)
"Cup of Coffee" (Jack Elliott)
"Roving Gambler" (Traditional)
"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Fred Rose)
"The Cuckoo" (Traditional)
"Talkin' Fishin'" (Guthrie)
"1913 Massacre" (Guthrie)
"Carpenter"
"912 Greens" (Elliott)

Reissue track listing

"Pretty Boy Floyd" (Woody Guthrie) – 4:00
"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (Fred Rose) – 3:11
"Freight Train Blues" (Traditional) – 3:43
"Talkin' Fishin'" (Guthrie) – 3:36
"Roving Gambler" (Traditional) – 3:50
"The Cuckoo" (Traditional) – 3:40
"Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" (Bob Dylan) – 3:40
"Soldiers Last Letter" (Ernest Tubb, Redd Stewart) – 3:04
"1913 Massacre" (Guthrie) – 5:04
"Buffalo Skinners" (Traditional) – 5:15
"Night Herding Song" (Traditional 2:51
"Mean Mama Blues" (Mitchell & Mulligan) – 2:25
"I Threw It All Away" (Dylan) – 3:42
"Detour" (Paul Westmoreland) – 2:13
"Ridin' Down the Canyon" (Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette) – 5:33
"Cup of Coffee" (Jack Elliott) – 4:10
"912 Greens" (Elliott) – 10:10

Personnel

Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, guitar

Technical

Günter Pauler - engineer
Jerken Diederich - cover design
Harmut Rosen - cover photography

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Ruhlman, William. "Kerouac's Last Dream > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Perry, Michael (November–December 1997). "Review: Kerouac's Last Dream". No Depression. Archived from the original on 2012-10-03.

External links

Ramblin' Jack Elliott Discography

v t e Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Studio albums	Woody Guthrie's Blues Jack Elliot Sings Jack Takes the Floor Ramblin' Jack Elliott in London Ramblin' Jack Elliott Sings Songs by Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie Songs to Grow On by Woody Guthrie, Sung by Jack Elliott Ramblin' Jack Elliott Country Style Jack Elliott Young Brigham Bull Durham Sacks & Railroad Tracks Kerouac's Last Dream South Coast Friends of Mine The Long Ride I Stand Alone A Stranger Here
Live albums	Jack Elliott at the Second Fret
With Derroll Adams	The Rambling Boys
Compilations	The Essential Ramblin' Jack Elliott Best of the Vanguard Years The Lost Topic Tapes: Cowes Harbour 1957 The Lost Topic Tapes: Isle of Wight 1957 Vanguard Visionaries
Songs	"Mister Garfield"

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