South Coast is an album by American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 folk musician Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.-Life and career:Elliot Charles Adnopoz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1931. Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy...

, released in 1998. It was his first new studio release in over 20 years.

At the Grammy Awards of 1996

Grammy Awards of 1996

The 38th Grammy Awards were held on February 28, 1996. The awards recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year. Alanis Morissette was the night's big winner, scoring four trophies, including Album of the Year.-Award winners:...

, South Coast won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album

Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album

The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album was awarded from 1987 to 2011. Until 1993 the award was known as the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Recording.An award for Best Contemporary Folk Album was also presented...

.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Burgin Matthews wrote the album "Elliott also reveals himself as one of the few truly enduring figures of the folk era, partly because his music is more honest, and as a result more timeless, than so much of that era's music... With South Coast, Elliott's legend is irrevocably cemented."

Track listing

1. "Pastures of Plenty
   Pastures of Plenty
   "Pastures of Plenty" is a 1941 composition by Woody Guthrie. Describing the travails and dignity of migrant workers in North America, it is evocative of the world described in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The tune is based on the ballad "Pretty Polly," a traditional English-language folk...
   
   " (Woody Guthrie
   Woody Guthrie
   Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
   
   ) – 2:46
2. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin
   Tim Hardin
   James Timothy "Tim" Hardin was an American folk musician and composer. He wrote the Top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter", covered by, among others, Joan Baez, Bobby Darin, Johnny Cash, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Robert Plant, and "Reason to Believe", covered by many, including Rod Stewart, as well...
   
   ) – 5:00
3. "Cocaine Blues" (Reverend Gary Davis
   Reverend Gary Davis
   Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, was an American blues and gospel singer and guitarist, who was also proficient on the banjo and harmonica...
   
   ) – 2:29
4. "I Ain't Got No Home" (Guthrie) – 2:07
5. "Will James" (Ian Tyson
   Ian Tyson
   Ian Tyson CM, AOE is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Four Strong Winds". He was also one half of the duo Ian & Sylvia.-Career:Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C...
   
   ) – 2:16
6. "The Buffalo Skinners (On the Trail of the Buffalo)" (Traditional) – 5:24
7. "Rake and Ramblin' Boy" (Derroll Adams
   Derroll Adams
   Derroll Adams was an American folk musician.-Biography:Adams was born Derroll Lewis Thompson in Portland, Oregon. At 16, he served in the Army and later in the Coast Guard. He was a tall, lanky banjo player with a deep voice...
   
   ) – 2:26
8. "South Coast" (Lillian Bos Ross) – 7:53
9. "Talkin' Dust Bowl" (Guthrie) – 3:03
10. "Mean Old Bed Bug Blues" (Joe Davis) – 3:23
11. "Ludlow Massacre" (Guthrie) – 4:25
12. "San Francisco Bay Blues
    San Francisco Bay Blues
    "San Francisco Bay Blues" is an American folk song and is generally considered to be the most famous composition by Jesse Fuller. Fuller first recorded the song in 1954 for a small label called World Song. The song was brought into wider popularity in the early 1960s by club performances by...
    
    " (Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller
    Jesse Fuller was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".-Early life:...
    
    ) – 2:14

Personnel

• Ramblin' Jack Elliott
  Ramblin' Jack Elliott
  Ramblin' Jack Elliott is an American folk singer and performer.-Life and career:Elliot Charles Adnopoz was born in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish parents in 1931. Elliott grew up inspired by the rodeos at Madison Square Garden, and wanted to be a cowboy...
  
  – vocals, guitar

Production notes:

• Bob Feldman – producer
• Brent Sigmeth – engineer
• Chris Frymire – editing, pre-mastering
• Eric Peltoniemi – associate producer, editing, mixing, pre-mastering
• Paul Baron – mixing
• David Glasser – mastering
• Linda Beauvais – artwork, design
• Michael Crouser – photography