{"id":1576,"date":"2023-03-11T17:13:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ramblin-charles-adnopoz-2\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T17:13:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T17:13:52","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ramblin-charles-adnopoz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ramblin-charles-adnopoz-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ramblin’ Charles Adnopoz"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a book giveaway hereabouts the other day I did snag me a copy of Dave van Ronk's memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street<\/em>. I'll have to dig into it one of these Saturday nights and pull out some tunes that you've never heard before.  In memory of the Mayor, here<\/a> is his version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now." And here<\/a> is his "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me."<\/span><\/p>\n

David Dalton, Who is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan<\/em>, Hyperion, 2012, p. 65:<\/span><\/p>\n

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As Dave van Ronk pointed out in his autobiography, many of the people involved in the first folk revival of the 1930s and '40s were Jewish — as were the folkies of the '60s. Van Ronk reasoned that for Jews, belonging to a movement centered on American traditional music was a form of belonging and assimilation.<\/span><\/p>\n

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"The revelation that Jack [Elliot] was Jewish was vouchsafed unto Bobby one afternoon at the Figaro," Van Ronk recalled.  "We were sitting around shooting the bull with Barry Kornfeld and maybe a couple of other people and somehow it came out that Jack had grown up in Ocean Parkway and was named Elliot Adnopoz.  Bobby literally fell off his chair; he was rolling around on the floor, and it took him a couple of minutes to pull himself together and get up again.  Then Barry, who can be diabolical in things like this, leaned over to him and just whispered the word 'Adnopoz' and back he went under the table."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Ramblin<\/a>Lacking as it does the proper American cowboy resonance, 'Elliot Charles Adnopoz' was ditched by its bearer who came to call himself 'Ramblin' Jack Elliot.'  Born in 1931 in Brooklyn to Jewish parents who wanted him to become a doctor, young Adnopoz rebelled, ran away, and became a protege of Woody Guthrie.  If it weren't for Ramblin' Jack, Guthrie would be nowhere near as well-known as he is today. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Pretty Boy Floyd<\/a>.  "As through this life you ramble, as through this life you roam\/You'll never see an outlaw drive a family from their home."  No?  An example of the  tendency of lefties invariably to  take the side of the underdog regardless of whether right or wrong.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Ramblin' Jack does a haunting version of Dylan's Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues<\/a>.  It grows on you. Give it a chance. Here<\/a> is a Dylan version with a good video. See if you can spot Phil Ochs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cigarettes and Whisky and Wild Women<\/a>.  Take a lesson, kiddies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soul of a Man<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan's unforgettable,  Don't Think Twice<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Here is Jack with Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte Marie singing the beautiful, Passing Through.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

At 1:41 Baez starts a great Dylan imitation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan on Baez<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At a book giveaway hereabouts the other day I did snag me a copy of Dave van Ronk's memoir, The Mayor of MacDougal Street. I'll have to dig into it one of these Saturday nights and pull out some tunes that you've never heard before.  In memory of the Mayor, here is his version of … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ramblin’ Charles Adnopoz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,200,167,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-bohemianism","category-dylan","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}