John Byrne Cooke
PHOTOGRAPHY
Image No. 63-7-44: Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Club 47, Cambridge, Mass., July 1963
Ramblin' Jack was the bridge between the generation of Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seeger and the Weavers, and our own. He went to England and got famous there and came back to the U.S., his legend preceding him. Jack had idolized Woody, and a very young Bob Dylan had idolized Jack -- hell, we all idolized Jack. He had a great repertoire and from the first time I saw him at the 47, I was learning songs from him. I still do them, and so does he.
