This show has been postponed until 2010 original tickets will remain valid for the new date once it has been confirmed.

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One of the great American musical treasures, Elliott has had a rich and storied life.  As a budding musician, Jack developed his voice under the tutelage of Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, truck hitching across the country off and on for a couple of years with Woody, carrying “only razors and guitars.”  The pair eventually landed in the McCarthy-free enclave of Topanga Canyon CA in the 1950s, where Elliott played for James Dean and later married Dean’s former flame.  On the other coast, Elliott was also a fixture of the Greenwich Village scene, and once spent “three days and a lot of wine” listening to Jack Kerouac read On the Road.  But it is his relationship with a young Bob Dylan that Elliott is perhaps most famous for, though back in the 1960s the up-and-coming Dylan was often mistakenly dubbed the “son of Jack Elliott.”  Today Elliott simply states “Dylan learned from me the same way I learned from Woody.”

‘A Stranger Here’, Ramblin' Jack's second record for ANTI, is a collection of Depression-era blues classics arranged and produced by Joe Henry (Solomon Burke, Elvis Costello/Allan Toussaint). Featuring renowned musicians such David Hidaglo of Los Lobos and Van Dyke Parks, ‘A Stranger Here’ is uncannily prescient, as songs first written and recorded during the Great Depression resonate loudly in today's uncertain economic climate. But sung in the warm and weathered tones of Ramblin' Jack's generous voice, the songs are more compassionate than ominous, a gentle reminder that surviving hardships is just a matter of keeping one's head down and spirits up.