Collector's Choice
1968
Young Brigham
About This Album
In the wake of the unexpected commercial success of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant in 1967, his record company, Warner Bros. (along with its sister label, Reprise) became interested in signing more New York-based folksingers, and soon Eric Andersen, David Blue, Joni Mitchell, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott had found homes on the West Coast major. Elliott was perhaps the least likely of this roster, having kicked around the folk scene since the early 1950s, when he was a junior associate of Woody Guthrie's, and made a series of albums for the folk division of the independent jazz label Prestige. Reprise made no overt attempt to alter Elliott's style to make him more commercial. Producer Bruce Langhorne (famed for his guitar stylings on albums by Bob Dylan and other folk-rock performers) brought in some extra musicians, and Elliott cut a couple of contemporary songs, Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter" (which had been made into a pop hit by Bobby Darin in 1966) and the Rolling Stones' "Connection" from their recent Between the Buttons album (which became Young Brigham's single release). But most of the album consisted of Elliott's familiar repertoire of Woody Guthrie songs and traditional country material.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,5,6,7 and 9)

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