MAY 23-29, 2013 -----------------------------Cover Story • Loretta Lynn --------------------------- The Belle of the Ballad By Evan Gillespie honesty, but it was also ruffles and span- Lynn, and she and Doo hit the road, playing gles. It was the beginning of a revolution in at radio stations to promote her record “I’m Quick. Name an actress you think should country music that has its conclusion more a Honky Tonk Girl.” play Loretta Lynn in a Broadway musical directly in Miranda Lambert than it does in When they got to Nashville, Lynn cap- version of the country singer’s life story. Deschanel or White. tured some more important attention, this Who comes immediately time from producer Owen to mind? Bet it isn’t Zooey Bradley, who was working Deschanel. The wide-eyed with Kitty Wells and Patsy cutie who likes to sing stan- Cline, among other hot acts dards and show tunes doesn’t of the day. Bradley took seem like a convincing fac- Lynn into the studio and be- simile of the hard-scrabble gan crafting her style; one of girl from Butcher Holler, but the results, 1962’s “Success,” Friday, June 14 • 8:00pm if all goes according to plan, was her first Top 10 single. Deschanel will portray Lynn Lynn’s stardom was when the musical biography built on down-home delivery, DAVID WILCOX of the world’s most famous but her style was anything $20 Adv., $25 D.O.S. coal miner’s daughter opens but modest. She was pugna- in NYC. cious, and she was eager to According to Deschanel, stand up for herself. “Don’t she had the idea to make Come Home a Drinkin’ (with a musical about Lynn, and Lovin’ on Your Mind)” and she asked her manager to “Fist City” explained how look into it. Turns out that she handled a boozing, cheat- Lynn already had the idea ing husband, and “You Ain’t herself, and the show was Woman Enough To Take My in development. The persis- Man” made it clear what she tent Deschanel pushed to be would do to keep him. Her cast in the role of Lynn, and feistiness wasn’t confined Lynn eventually agreed. She to her personal life; she was brought Deschanel onstage also willing to take on soci- in Nashville last year to make ety at large. Her 1975 song the announcement. “The Pill” took a liberated “I think she can sing her view of birth control, and it ... self to death,” Lynn said was controversial enough to of Deschanel, the hesitation be banned by some coun- in her comment pointing out try radio stations. Lynn had Wednesday, June 19 • 8:00pm the hard-scrabble girl still learned about homey honesty living inside the 80-year-old from Wells, but through the JIMMY THACKERY singer. She clearly wanted to 60s and 70s, she made it her give a slightly more off-color own. description of Deschanel’s Lynn was a sensation, & THE DRIVERS singing. “I didn’t say it,” she and her fame was big enough $20 Adv., $25 D.O.S. laughed. even by 1969 that she could That Lynn can still in- LORETTA LYNN write “Coal Miner’s Daugh- Thursday, June 27 • 8:00pm trigue pixie-ish actresses in 2013 says a w/Holly Williams ter,” a song that mythologized her rise lot about her relevance now, more than Friday, May 31 • 8 p.m. from Appalachian poverty to superstar- half a century after she recorded her first dom. Dolly Parton echoed the song’s JOHN FULLBRIGHT song, as does her last album, 2004’s Van Embassy Theatre rural myth-making in “Coat of Many Lear Rose. That album, produced by 125 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne Colors,” also written in 1969, about her $15 Adv., $20 D.O.S. modern rock darling Jack White, was own childhood in Tennessee. The songs White’s attempt to put Lynn’s music in Tix: $39-$103 thru Ticketmaster & established the notion that rural cred is Sunday, June 30 • 7:30pm a different context. White is enamored Embassy box office, 260-424-5665 important for a country star, to the point with lo-fi (he famously likes to play gui- that these days every singer on the ra- tars made of plastic and cardboard) and he Lynn’s story is legendary. She was born dio has to record at least one romantic song GUGGENHEIM saw lo-fi as the logical way to go for the mu- in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky in 1932, and about his or her dirt-road adolescence. sic of a girl from the hills. When White did she married young. Her autobiography, The golden age of mainstream coun- GROTTO his own cover of “Coal Miner’s Daughter” published in 1976, claimed that she was 13 try that Lynn helped to build, the age when $12 Adv., $15 D.O.S. this year, he recorded it directly to vinyl in when she got married, but the discovery of she and George Jones and Tammy Wynette a vintage recording booth so that “you can her birth certificate by the Associated Press could sing about blue-collar concerns on hear the warm analog fidelity” and plenty of last year proved that she was almost 16 when big stages while wearing so many sequins GO TO OUR WEBSITE FOR fuzzy scratchiness. she wed Oliver “Doolittle” Lynn. Regard- and rhinestones that they could blind fans in TICKET INFO & MORE Let’s not forget, though, that Lynn’s rise less, she was a grandmother by the time she the very last row, was a long time ago, but ALL SHOWS ALL AGES to fame in the 1960s wasn’t about LA-born was 29, and she was living in Washington it still reverberates. It influences Broadway starlets on Broadway or mountain folk mu- state with Doo. producers and actresses, and it drives hipster sic performed with self-consciously modest She began to seriously work on a mu- rockers. More obviously, it inspires every authenticity. It was about using country-girl sic career in the beginning of the 1960s, and country singer who defiantly declares her grit to tenaciously pursue commercial suc- she caught the attention of Zero Records co- impatience with unfaithful men and oppres- cess in the world of mainstream country founder Norm Burley at a talent show in Ta- sive societal expectations. It’s an impressive music. It was fist-swinging, tell-it-like-it-is coma hosted by Buck Owens. Zero recorded legacy, and one that Lynn can be proud of. 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.whatzup.com -----------------------------------------------------------------May 23, 2013 whatzup Volume 17, Number 42 s you flip through the 24 pages in this week’s issue, you’ll notice Pregnant? there’s no shortage of things to do and see this week. The Embassy Theatre has a treat in store for country music fans, as the legendary Let’s do lunch... LorettaA Lynn will entertain Friday for what is guaranteed to be a memorable and talk about your options. evening of down-home country. Evan Gillespie has the details on page 2. Also Adoption can be a fresh start with featured this week are local artist and instructor Mike Schmid (page 4) and free support, living expenses and self-proclaimed “music sluts” JFX (page 5). a friendly voice 24 hrs/day. You can choose the perfect family Thursday brings the fourth preliminary round of whatzup/Wooden Nickel Battle for your baby from happy, carefully- of the Bands X. A handful of talented groups will compete on the Columbia screened couples who live right Street West stage, so come out and root for your favorite group to advance in here in Indiana. the competition! You can share pictures, do visits There’s something for everyone to enjoy – yes, including the kiddies – so and even have an open adoption, start flipping through the issue to begin planning your week’s outings and, as if you want. always, remember to tell one and all that whatzup sent you. Listen to our birth mothers’ stories at adoptionsupportcenter.com “Ramblin’” Ralph Tourkow, a talented and well-respected member of the Fort or call us at... Wayne music community, passed away May 16 from heart complications. Ralph enjoyed playing various genres of music, including classical, folk, country, jazz and rock. He played in a number of groups throughout his life, including The Utopians, The (317) 255-5916 Candy Store, Three’s a Crowd, Fort Wayne Summer Symphony, Fort Wayne Philhar- Se habla español monic, Summit City Jazz, Power Play, Answer Band and, most recently, Scratch’N’Sniff and The Remnants. Ralph was a kind and generous man who knew no strangers and always had a laugh, story and song to share. We send our deepest condolences to his family and friends. We will miss him and all of his contributions to the Fort Wayne music scene. • features FLIX ................................................ 18 Cinema Center Delivers a Month of Noir and Horror ON BOOKS .....................................21 LORETTA LYNN ...........................................2 Bébé Day by Day www.adoptionsupportcenter.com The Belle of the Ballad SCREENTIME ................................ 23 MIKE SCHMID .............................................4 Five Worth Watching Sowing Seeds of Creativity JFX ................................................................5 Putting Out for Fans • calendars KARAOKE & DJS ..............................8 • columns & reviews LIVE MUSIC & COMEDY ...................9 MUSIC/ON THE ROAD ...................14 SPINS ...............................................6 Bekah Bradley, Killswitch Engage, Broadheds, Rilo ROAD TRIPZ ..................................17 Kiley, No Joy MOVIE TIMES ................................18 BACKTRACKS ..................................6 THINGS TO DO ..............................20 Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream (1993) STAGE & DANCE ...........................22 OUT & ABOUT ................................ 10 Ribfest, Metal and Pharr Benefit ART & ARTIFACTS .........................22 ROAD NOTEZ ................................. 14 Cover design by Greg Locke June 17 • 7:30pm • Embassy Theatre Tickets on sale at the Embassy box office, all outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or charge-by-phone at 800.745.3000.