{"id":323,"date":"2025-01-25T16:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T16:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ramblin-charles-adnopoz\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T16:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T16:10:28","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ramblin-charles-adnopoz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/01\/25\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-ramblin-charles-adnopoz\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ramblin’ Charles Adnopoz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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 prot\u00e9g\u00e9 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

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.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Cigarettes and Whis<\/a><\/span>ky and Wild Woman<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Soul of a Man<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

Addendum<\/em>:  A correspondent sends us to an article<\/a> by Peter Hitchens on Dylan. Tell me what you think of it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Dalton, Who is That Man? In Search of the Real Bob Dylan, Hyperion, 2012, p. 65: 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 … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Ramblin’ Charles Adnopoz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}