I'm Not There. Page #2
you found your freedom
before you found your technique.
Now, real American music
come from the bottom up.
He's the best blues singer
east of Cannery Row.
He say, "Son, if you can
sing these songs
and understand them,
ain't no place you can't go.
Ah, thank you very much, ma'am.
You're welcome.
I reckon I come out the womb
singing and picking
and playing and all that mess.
Your kinfolk?
Oh, they back in Stockton, ma'am.
California.
That's where I was raised.
I figured they got plenty
of mouths to feed as it is.
Not that I care a fig about material things,
you know, except for
maybe a decent car.
See, us thumb-slummers
and box-jumpers,
we get a little peckish
when it comes to cars, you know?
That boy sound just like Doughboy Hawkins,
a fella I met in the Dust Bowl.
Tell you what I think.
I think it's 1959,
and this boy's singing
songs about the boxcar?
Hmm. What a boxcar
gonna mean to him?
Right here, we got race riots,
folks with no food.
Why ain't he out there
singing about that?
The boy a guest in our house.
I know he's a guest.
I'm just trying to speak what's in my mind.
No!
Say it.
Live your own time, child.
Sing about your own time.
Greenwich Village,
once the in spot
for beatnik jazz and bebop,
is today home
to the popular folk music fad,
a do-it-yourself musical expression
that's attracted youngsters
from all across the nation.
For them,
these homespun songs of the working man
express a truth and candor
sorely lacking in today's
growing consumer society.
Why do you prefer folk music
Because it's honest.
Commercial songs,
pop music can't be honest.
It's controlled and censored
by the people who run society
and make the rules.
Yet, among the many new
and talented artists to emerge,
one name stands alone
as the heart and soul
of this growing musical trend.
A young individual
who both writes and performs
some of his era's finest tunes,
and hailed by the New York Times
as folk music's
Troubadour of Conscience.
His name is Jack Rollins.
Jack Rollins,
folk sensation of the early '60s,
was the promise of a new generation.
So what was it that made him run
at the height of his career
and throw it all away,
trading in the limelight
for a different kind of light altogether?
He saw what was going on
in the world,
and he had the ability
to distill it into a song.
He was sensational.
# For the times, they are a-changin' #
Now, this young man has
taken to the hearts of young people
who seem to somehow identify with, uh...
Jack, why do you think that is?
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