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Ramblin' Jack

Folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott ran away to join the rodeo at age 15, fell in love with the cowboy life, and started spilling folk songs in a way that "sounded more like Woody Guthrie than Woody Guthrie." Charles Osgood visits with the musical storyteller, in a tale originally broadcast February 21, 1999.
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