“New York Town” was written by folk legend Woody Guthrie. Jack Elliott’s version comes from the album “Jack Elliott Sings the Songs of Woody Guthrie,” which was released in September 1960. Elliott became friends with Guthrie after getting his number from New Lost City Ramblers’ Tom Paley. He told Rolling Stone, “I said, ‘Woody, my name is Jack Elliott, I’m a friend of Tom Paley’s. I’ve been listening to your records and I’ve been playing guitar for about four years.’ ‘Well,’ he says, ‘Jack, ya oughta come over and bring your gi-tar and we’ll knock off a couple of tunes together. Don’t come today, though—I gotta belly ache.”
Songs with Banjo from Harold Hagler
