Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Woody Guthrie’s travelling companion Ramblin’ Jack Elliott arrived in London with his wife June in September 1955, just in time to establish himself as the skiffle movement’s most authentic role model. They both starred in Joan Littlewood’s pantomime ‘The Big Rock Candy Mountain’ at the Theatre Royal in Stratford that year, and Jack later toured Italy in a bizarre package show with Colin Hicks & the Cabin Boys and the Platters.
Read all about him in ‘The Restless Generation’ by Pete Frame.
