| Country Style | ||||
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| Studio album by Ramblin' Jack Elliott | ||||
| Released | 1962 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Prestige/Folklore | |||
| Producer | Kenneth S. Goldstein | |||
| Ramblin' Jack Elliott chronology | ||||
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| Alternative Cover | ||||
 Cover of the reissue of Country Style and Jack Elliott at the Second Fret | ||||
Country Style is an album by American folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott, released in 1962.
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
Writing for Allmusic, music critic Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. wrote the album "On Country Style, one can see the rambling doctor's son come into his own as a performer... Elliott steps away from the past to carve out an irreverent, slap-happy style that showed that folk music, when handled without studious care, could be a helluva lot of fun... Country Style represents the first flowering of Elliott's talent and turning point for folk traditionalism."
Reissues
- Country Style was reissued on CD by Fantasy Records in 1999 along with Jack Elliott at the Second Fret.
Track listing
All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.
Side one
- "Mean Mama Blues" (Charles Mitchell, Moon Mullican)
- "Low and Lonely" (Fred Rose)
- "Wreck of the Old '97" (Henry Clay Work)
- "Old Shep" (Red Foley)
- "Wabash Cannonball" (A. P. Carter)
- "Brown Eyes"
- "Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend, Irving Mills)
Side two
- "Arthritis Blues" (Butch Hayes)
- "Take Me Back and Love Me One More Time"
- "Tennessee Stud" (Jimmy Driftwood)
- "Those Brown Eyes" (Alan Arkin, Bill Carey, Erik Darling, Woody Guthrie)
- "Detour" (Paul Westmoreland)
- "Soldier's Last Letter" (Ernest Tubb, Redd Stewart)
Personnel
- Ramblin' Jack Elliott – vocals, harmonica, guitar
- Technical
- Hal Lustig - recording
- Don Schlitten - design, photography
References
- ^ Lankford, Jr., Ronnie D. "Country Style > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved July 3, 2011.
- Allmusic entry for Country Style/Live. Accessed June 12, 2009.