Ramblin’ Jack Elliott came up rough and restless, a Brooklyn kid who chased cowboy songs until he sounded like he’d stepped off a ranch in 1952. By the mid-50s he was riding with Woody Guthrie, carrying those dust-road ballads across clubs, coffeehouses, and wide-open backroads with a sly grin and a storyteller’s ease. His sharp flat-picking and talkin’ blues style shaped a young Bob Dylan in the early 60s and helped fuel the folk revival that followed. Jack never chased polish — just the next r