I'm Not There. Page #3
Well, I don't know.
I... I guess...
I got a lot of thoughts inside of me,
and most people, they...
they... keep them all inside.
And I guess it's for them
that I do what I do.
Today, the name Jack Rollins
might best be remembered
as the tortured singer
battling his conscience
in the 1965 drama,
Grain of Sand.
The role, of course,
that launched the career
of Hollywood rebel Robbie Clark.
Hell, I don't pick what I sing.
It picks me.
Some of it ain't pretty.
I mean, how you ever
gonna change anything
if you only wanna show what's pretty?
In his first exclusive interview in 20 years...
Tonight, we bring you face-to-face
with the real Jack Rollins.
# William Zanzinger
# With a cane that he twirled #
# 'Round his diamond ring finger #
He saw what was going on
in the world,
and he had the ability
to distill it into a song.
And this elevated the discussion.
I mean, certainly
within the folk world,
but all through popular music,
the bar had risen.
Alice Fabian
in the folk revival,
achieving international success
a few years before
Hey, you're in my chair.
I was at a party in the Village,
who'd been hanging around,
kind of flirting with my baby sister
and kissing up to me,
that he'd written on guitar.
Now, this was '61, '62,
and all anybody sang were traditionals,
and here's this kid, applying traditional form
to contemporary concerns,
but with such insight, you know?
It was devastating.
You couldn't believe
this was coming out of this little toad.
Nobody was writing songs like that.
It was as if he was giving voice to ideas
that I wanted to express
but didn't know how.
Um, his finger-pointing songs,
he called 'em.
He was churning them out
like ticker tape.
Well, folk music has always
been a political music,
but he was really expressing
it as an art form
in a way that was multileveled and very deep.
# Hattie Carroll
was a maid of the kitchen #
# She was 51 years old #
# And gave birth to ten children #
# Who carried the dishes
and took out the garbage #
# And never sat once
at the head of the table #
# And didn't even talk
# She just cleaned up
all the food from the table #
# And emptied the ashtrays
# Got killed by a blow,
lay slain by a cane #
Every night,
I would call this ragamuffin on stage
and introduce America
to Jack Rollins.
I'd say, you know,
that he has something to say,
you know, and that he is...
he is speaking for me
and everybody who wants
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