He left home at 15 to join the rodeo where he learned to sing cowboy songs,
but it was hearing his first Woody Guthrie record that transformed him in
to the man Sam Shepard called a wandering true American minstrel. In
giving new life to our most valuable musical traditions, Ramblin' Jack has
himself become an American treasure. Ladies and gentlemen, Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
Thank you.