Jack Takes the Floor

Classic country and folk albums are great because they don’t waste my time. Half an hour of music that’s in and out. No triple album nonsense. This was pretty good. Nothing mindblowing but I can see how it led up to what Dylan would do in the 60’s. I liked the song with Woody. Favorite songs were San Francisco Bay Blues, New York Town, and Cocaine.

could be a 1 ngl

The first song on this album is what keeps this from dropping to a two, especially considering that awful lord, lord, lord song. 2.5/5 - 3/5

The soundtrack of white supremacy.

The Aesthetic is Strong

It sure is ramblin.
I have issue with guitar playing or even most of the vocals, but the lyrical content lacks something.
You can hear the connection to Woody Guthrie but the quality of songs dont compare to those i’ve heard from Guthrie

Another album not on Amazon to stream so I got to experience this through YouTube. The playlist I listened to had an unfortunate hour long crypto ad after the first two songs (boo, hiss, down with that type of thing etc, etc).

I should have known from the name there would be a bit of talk-singing on a par with Shatner (which is not a compliment), but I liked San Francisco Baby Blues once he started singing. And track 2, Ol' Riley. It did make me giggle that he was slightly obsessed with insects (The Boll Weevil being immediately followed by Bed Bug Blues). Woody Guthrie turning up was a surprise for me as I had no idea of their history together.

This made me think of the soundtrack to O' Brother Where Art Thou (which remains the only time I've walked out of a cinema at the end and gone straight to HMV to immediately purchase the soundtrack). I can't see me regularly listening to this in the same way, but I did enjoy some of the non talk-singing bits.

It loses a least 1 star for the ramblin' though.

2/5

It's decent I guess. If you love folk music you'll like this. If you like folk music, you'll think it's decent. If you think folk music is decent, I don't think you'll like this.

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No thank you!
Talks too much, yodels not particularly well.
Couldn’t wait for it to be over.
Clearly was an influence of Dylan’s, whose early music is also annoying, so that tracks.
This was a true struggle to get through. Short songs never felt so long.

3.53

Does every damn song really need an intro explanation. “This is a song about when you need to go to work but would rather stay in bed… Ohhhh I need to get to work, but I’d rather stay in bed” ass music

YEEHAAWWW!!! this is what a perfect country album is

After Listening to this Album I immediately stopped using the metric system

Cozy!

This was fine. Nothing special, but nothing repulsive. 3/5

This kind of feels like a cover album. It doesn't have the weight of Dylan or Johnny Cash songs that would come later and also doesn't FOLK as much as Woody does. Low 3

Like this kind of stuff when it comes up on Cerys. A whole album is a bit much though.

Despite the preoccupation with insects, this album doesn't suck. Unlike the pretentious and posturing country/folk of the seventies peddled by Neil Young and Van Morrison, there's a real, bluesy, gritty edge to this music. It's just a man and his guitar, and it's enjoyable.

Every day I'm ramblin'!