Derroll Adams

Derroll Adams
Derroll Adams
Birth name Derroll Lewis Thompson
Born November 27, 1925, Portland, Oregon, USA
Died February 6, 2000 (age 74)
Antwerp, Belgium
Genres Folk
Occupations Singer-songwriter
Instruments Guitar, Banjo, Vocals
Associated acts Ramblin' Jack Elliott

Derroll Adams (November 27, 1925 – February 6, 2000) was an American folk musician.

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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. He was busking around the West Coast music scene in the 1950s when he met Ramblin' Jack Elliott in the Topanga Canyon area of Los Angeles, California. The two traveled around and recorded albums, among them Cowboys and The Rambling Boys.

According to legend, Adams and Elliott would go in the studio with whatever they had, which may have included whiskey and marijuana, and they recorded whatever they felt like recording on the spur of the moment. This style of recording was probably more prevalent in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s—the result is that the recording is loose around the edges but preserves some of the spontaneity and vigor of a live performance. It is a performative, rather than a compositional, style (see Paul Williams's Bob Dylan: Performing Artist series, particularly vol. 1, for a more in-depth discussion of the tension between the performative and the compositional).

His recording career was somewhat uneven, and like Elliott he was better known for whom he influenced—Donovan, among others—than for his own art. With Elliott, he had gone to England to play live and record. Elliott went back, and Adams stayed. He took Donovan, who had been playing around the UK with Gypsy Dave, under his wing as a sort of protege; as a result, the influence of American traditional music can be distinctly heard in Donovan's earlier work (see D. A. Pennebaker's Dont Look Back).

Adams died in Antwerp, Belgium, in 2000. His collaboration with Elliott left behind a body of influence that prevails today. Topic Records has made most of his and Elliott's recordings available on CD.

Discography

Solo projects

With Ramblin' Jack Elliott

  • 1957: The Rambling Boys
  • 1963: Roll On Buddy
  • 1969: Folkland Songs
  • 1969: Riding in Folkland
  • 1975: America

Sources

  • Williams, Paul: Bob Dylan Performing Artist vols. 1–3 (aka The Early Years, The Middle Years & Mind Out of Time, respectively)
  • Pennebaker, D. A.: Dont Look Back
  • Donovan: Troubadour: The Definitive Collection 1964–1976
  • Folk Freak Plattenproduktion Folk Friends 1978

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