The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

08/16/2000

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1hr 52min

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Music

,Documentary

After Woody Guthrie and before Bob Dylan came Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

STORY

With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival and contemporary footage. Born in 1932 in Brooklyn, busking through the South and West in the early 50s, a year with Woody Guthrie, six years flatpicking in Europe, a triumphant return to Greenwich Village in the early 60s, mentoring Bob Dylan, then life on the road, from gig to gig, singing and telling stories. A Grammy and the National Medal of Arts await Jack near the end of a long trail. What will Aiyana find for herself?

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Jack Elliott
  • Arlo Guthrie
  • Kris Kristofferson
  • Pete Seeger
  • Odetta

    Director

  • Aiyana Elliott

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Crawford Communications
  • Journeyman Pictures
  • Plantain Films
  • Verisimilitude

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English