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Following Ramblin' Jack as he tours the country, from New York City to his home in Mendocino, California, Aiyana Elliot mixes film clips from their travels with found footage that spans seven decades, from family home videos to scenes from Johnny Cash's television tele-vision show of the l0s, from interviews with friends such as Kris Kristofferson and Arlo and Nora Guthrie, to material taken from several attempted documentaries documen-taries about Ramblin' Jack earlier in his life. The story of Ramblin Jack Elliott begins with the story of Elliott Adnopoz, the son of a Jewish doctor in Brooklyn, New-York. New-York. A dreamer from a young age, Elliott Adnopoz ran away to join a rodeo and become cowboy, to make of himself w hat he wanted want-ed to make. He picked up guitar, started traveling, and became Record documents legendary dad Ramblin' Jack Elliott. Ramblin' Jack never looked back. He traveled the American South learning songs and guitar-playing guitar-playing skills from farmers and rural musicians. In the early 1950's, he befriended Woody Guthrie. Enchanted by Guthrie's proletarian poetry, authentic and direct, Ramblin' Jack dedicated himself to learning the man's music (though Guthrie insisted on having Jack "steal it;" he wouldn't give it away ) Nora Guthrie, Woody 's daughter, said that Jack w as one of the few w ho would stand by her father as he succumbed suc-cumbed to a neurological disorder. Powerful footage of the two men playing together shows the passing on of American folk music between generations, a freeze-frame freeze-frame of social history. In California Ramblin Jack met and befriended Beat artists, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He also met the first of several wives, who convinced him to tour Europe. In Britain, Jack became an immediate sensation, releasing several records and engendering a watered-down ver- Currently Oving 110 sion of folk known as "skiffle," a musical fad for which Ramblin' Jack had unkind words. Among those listening to him play w as a young Mick Jagger, on whom Ramblin' Jack's base-note flatpick-ing flatpick-ing style was not lost. Returning to the United States and finding a vibrant folk scene in New York City's Greenwich Village, Ramblin' Jack found himself him-self in the role of living legend, the man who had played with Woody Guthrie. He met a young Bob Dylan, eager to emulate. Shots show Dylan looking up to Ramblin' Jack as if he were descended from heaven. Dylan "stole" well, and Ramblin Jack would not begrudge him the knowledge. But in one of the film's more forceful moments, as Ramblin' Jack, in the present dav, plays Dylan's "Don't Think twice. It's AH Right," the film documents the manner in which Dylan turned his back on his forebears. As the 60s moved on. Ramblin' Jack stayed on the road, following his instincts and dreams, while the music that he had nurtured in America garnered huge success for Dylan and others. In California, again, Jack met another anoth-er soon-to-be wife, Martha, who would become Aiyana Elliott's mother. Much of the film chronicles Jack's incessant touring, including his stint on the Rollin' Thunder Review with Dylan. Ramblin" Jack tried to be a father to Aiyana, taking her on tour sometimes some-times and meeting up with her when he played near her home, but it was not to be. We see Aiyana as a child, plucking at the strings of her father's guitar her mother recounting that it was the only sure way to get attention. Struggling through the late 70's and 1980 with obscurity and drug involvement, Ramblin' Jack's travels trav-els began to slow only after Aiyana Elliot had grown up. And so she decided to make this film. Unchanged despite being a bit more settled now in California, Jack remains impervious to Aiyana 's efforts throughout the film to "have a normal conversation" conversa-tion" with him. All her efforts to reach out are met with digressions, interruptions, and more stories from the road. (As Kris Kristofferson explains, he's not called Ramblin' Jack for his travels, trav-els, but for his manner of talking and telling stories.) Aiyana Elliott's narrative at the end of the film seems to convey that she has come to accept Ramblin' Jack, even love him for who he is, but one gets the sense that the story, as is always the case with Ramblin' Jack, continues more off the camera. Ramblin' Jack was at the film first Sundance screening on Friday, Jan. 24. After the film, he shuffled to the front of the theater with his daughter, for a question-and-answer session. Aiyana Elliot struggled to fight off tears, and the most appropriate feedback seemed to be not a question, but the comment by an audience Personalized Pet Portraits www.vlzstudio.com THE SOWN UHDEB FEATURES Uvo Qcic Every Weekend Mike Kelly and the Three Rivers Band Former openers for the Marshall Tucker Band January 21 and 22 Coming Soon 1 Pool Table Video Golf Darts Video Games Food Appetizers Steak Seafood Open nightly! Wednesday, January 26, 2000 ; member that it w as a beautiful story and film. In an interview with The Park Record before the screening, Elliott said of growing up, that, mixed in with the fun of traveling and knowing many of the greatest figures in folk music (at one point in her childhood, she thought Bob Dylan was her father), was a certain cer-tain lacking for her. "The hard part was that when I saw him it was very hard to talk to him." The director added that the film had brought them closer, both through the time they had spent together, and through the process of discovery that making the film presented. "It's the perfect medium to tell his story," said Elliott, w ho added that she was nervous about his response to the film, given its honest hon-est and unflinching portrayal of his life, both as performer and as father. Ramblin' Jack, stnking a contrast con-trast to the film's audience in worn jeans and a cowboy hat. for once had very little to say. Despite a life-long discomfort with and dislike dis-like for seeing his image on film. Jack admitted that he didn t mind the film heck, he even enjoyed it. The beauty of "The Ballad of Ramblin" Jack" seems to lie partially par-tially in the sadness it presents. Found not only in the frustrations of a daughter w ho never really knew her father w hile growing up, or in the portrait of an artist w hose brilliance seemed to lead to as many struggles as triumphs, it is rather something deeper in the film. Aiyana Elliott escorts the view-, er along with Ramblin' Jack and herself as they cross America and -j she pursues her father. But while i she does not unearth the secrets of ! his soul, or forge a bond that w as ' long absent between them, she ; does seem to accept the power and freedom inside him. the force I that led him to become Ramblin" Jack and not Elliot Adnopoz. It is something unreachable in j him that his daughter (and perhaps per-haps the audience as well) comes ! to accept. It is echoed in the film's bigger sense of the unreachability of the America that nurtured his dreams, the America seen in the . film's many sweeping shots of open landscape, desert and plains. It is echoed in the sense that the America of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Guthrie, of dust bowl realism or exuberant dreams of freedom, is slipping-,. ; away, . - ... moiu. j Of course, among the mflayv: i things that Ramblin' Jack's life ; might show, is the fact that a ; person holds a life in his or her I hands, to sculpt and to form. A ; boy from Brooklyn became a cowboy and a folk singer, and j touched the lives of countless ! people. He did so because of his dreams, because he was "out I there, soaking in the cosmos." It even seems he may have, eventually, touched the life of ! his daughter, though her own j courage, honestv, and vision in j "The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack" ! deserve a large part of the credit; for that. ! Doug Winch Band January 28 and 29 Hop Along Casualty (Formerly Block & Tackle) February 5 New Games M s 5; 3: s f t 1 |