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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack (DVD)Ramblin' Jack Elliott ambled through the folk movement as a true free spirit and the ultimate follower of his dreams. He had dreams of trains, boats, the road, rodeos, and he wrote songs about all of these things. He was also the unheralded but un... Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved. |
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack -Ramblin' Jack Elliott, a self-styled folk musician, was an important transitional figure between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. This documentary serves as both a chronicle of his colorful life and an attempt by his daughter, director Aiyanna Elliott, to reconnect with her often-absent father. Born Elliott Adnopoz in Brooklyn, Jack ran off as a teenager in 1947 to join a traveling rodeo troupe after seeing them perform in Madison Square Garden. He returned to New York and took up singing, first cowboy songs, then traditional and contemporary folk music. He and Woody Guthrie traveled through the South in the 1950s, learning songs from blues artists such as the Reverend Gary Davis, Elizabeth Cotton, and Jesse Fuller. Elliott remained one of Guthrie's truest friends all through Guthrie's long battle with Huntington's chorea, the congenital nerve disease that killed him in 1967. In 1955, Elliott and the first of his four wives decamped to England, where his reputation was made with fans of the skiffle music craze. H |
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