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DOWN THE LINE 15 he had COVID-19 in November and his eldest BY STEVE PENHOLLOW Withers had a joke about this, Harrold son died in his sleep in January. 7 p.m. Saturday, March 6 WHATZUP FEATURES WRITER said, that he used on interviewers after he It would have been understandable if he had got famous (for singing, not for toilet repair): The Embassy Theatre backed out of his Down the Line appearance. The Embassy Theatre’s annual Down the “People ask me if I think what I am doing is 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne But Causey said his strong religious faith Line concerts, in which local bands pay trib- important. And I say, ‘I’ll tell you what. I won’t $20 · (260) 424-6287 guides him in all things and it told him to do ute to national ones, grew out of a similar sing for a month and you don’t (use the toilet) THEMED CROSSWORD this show. series that happened at the now-defunct for a month.’” “I am a human being and I’m a Christian,” This issue’s puzzle features clues based Columbia Street West. Withers had a pragmatic nature that he said. “The Bible says there is a time to The C-Street series was inspired by appeals to Harrold. on Down the Line 15 · Page 14 mourn and a time to be happy. There’s a time so-called Hoot Nights in Austin, Texas (Hoot is “He wasn’t like a star,” he said. “He didn’t voices on their own,” Washington said. “But for everything. I took some time to do what I short for hootenanny). have that star thing happening at all. He something magical happened when they came had to do. And now I am ready to get back to Fort Wayne’s Down the Line 15 happens seemed really natural, like a natural person. together as a group.” work.” March 6 and will feature Ty Causey as Stevie He didn’t have a hit until he was 33 years old.” So when Washington presented her This is the second time Causey has assayed Wonder, Todd Harrold as Bill Withers, Fatima On Withers’ first album, Just as I Am, Ste- Supremes plan to Moore and Cotton, she the role of Stevie Wonder at a Down the Line Washington (and friends) as the Supremes, phen Stills was the guitarist, Harrold said. told them that success hinged on their concert. The first time was eight years ago at and the Institute for the Musically Insane as “I mean, listen to ‘Grandma’s Hands,’” he participation. Down the Line 7. That appearance generated Isaac Hayes. said. “That’s Stephen Stills on lead guitar. “I said, ‘Are you guys down? Because if so much buzz that Causey decided to give The Embassy’s chief marketing officer It’s the same guitar sound as, like, ‘Wooden you’re not down, I’m going to pick the Jackson Wonder an encore. Carly Myers said the event will be made pan- Ships.’” Five’,” she recalled. “’And I’ll just be a whole “People who couldn’t come that time have demic-safe with a masked-when-in-motion Harrold has participated in Down the Line bunch of Michael.’ But they were in. And I was said, ‘Man, I wish I could have seen Ty do requirement, timed entry, one-way traffic twice before. In 2012, he performed the music super, super grateful. I was like, ‘OK, cool. Now Stevie Wonder,’” Causey said. “So I said, ‘You flow, zoned concessions, and a 530-ticket of Steely Dan, and in 2018, he performed the we can do the thing where we all dress up alike know what? Maybe I’ll just do that again.’” limit. music of Stevie Wonder. and everyone can get a chance to shine.’ That’s Causey said he admires Wonder’s songwrit- Here are interviews with three of the partic- Harrold is currently recording a new album what we plan to bring to the stage.” ing, his singing, and his passion. If he didn’t ipating artists. with pianist Eric Clancy and guitarist and What set the Supremes apart from other think he could do Wonder justice, he wouldn’t Sweetwater Sound exec Bob Bailey. His musi- girl groups was a “distinctive soulfulness,” do him at all. TODD HARROLD AS BILL WITHERS cal expertise and enthusiasm can be enjoyed Washington said. “There’s some artists that you just leave When fans compare singer and drummer every Sunday night on his WBOI radio show, “I think every artist I have done for Down alone,” he said. “Don’t try to improve anything, Todd Harrold to the musical legends he seems Burnt Toast. the Line has had that,” she said. “If you think because there is nothing to improve.” vocally to evoke, two names come up more about Whitney Houston, there was a distinc- Causey will perform with a full band at than any others: proto-hip-hop artist Gil FATIMA WASHINGTON AS THE SUPREMES tive soulfulness that transcended (the pop Down the Line, but for his usual shows, he Scott-Heron and soul singer Bill Withers. Fatima Washington wanted to cover the music she recorded early in her career). If you performs with backing tracks recorded by “If you listen to Gil Scott-Heron and then Supremes for Down the Line, but it hinged on think about Aretha Franklin, a lot of her songs guitarist W.R. Sanders before his death in you listen to me, you’re going to go, ‘Oh, yeah, one thing.