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MMAKING THE MOST OF YOUR LIFE

BARBARA BRADLEY

SENSE OF STYLE Memphis designer creates comfortable chic for all

Under the category “chic for everybody,” put Memphis de- signer Marva Ballard, who cre- ates simple, smart dresses and other wardrobe essentials worn by professional women here and in other cities, no matter their age or size. Lately, Ballard has begun reaching new customers with innovative marketing, periodi- cally turning her studio on the ground floor of the building at 44 N. Second into a kind of mini- boutique showcasing several lo- cal designers. She is also taking her designs to East Memphis through a pop-up shop. South Main has Trolley Night, she said, “but there’s not much going on up here. So, hopefully, (on that fourth Friday of each month), they’ll take the trolley and come down and see what we have,” she said. Fourth Friday Open Studio will o!er fashions, accessories, art and home décor items by Ballard and at least four other designers, she said, including Pat Jones-Brown, president of the Memphis Chapter of the American Sewing Guild, Ruby Dandridge, who makes purses and hats of recycled fur, and Dana Kimbrough, who over- came a series of strokes as a young woman to go on and cre- ate a fashion collection as well as a T-shirt business. There also will be colorful handmade glass jewelry from Lemon Drop Glass by Brenda Liles, who lives in Northern Alabama. Every second Friday and Saturday Ballard is staging a CLAY PATRICK MCBRIDE pop-up shop at J Nails and Co. Memphis-born Rosanne Cash has rediscovered her Delta roots in a music project that found her retracing her Southern heri- Spa and Salon at 5101 Sanderlin, tage. She also joined in a project to restore her father Johnny Cash’s childhood home and farming colony in Dyess, Arkansas. where women may purchase garments off-the-rack or be fitted and have them made-to- ■ Rosanne Cash By Bob Mehr measure. [email protected] Designing under the name discovers her roots on 901-529-2517 M.G. Ballard, Ballard is known especially for her Dangerous the critically acclaimed Curves Collection, pieces usu- concept album ‘The or Rosanne Cash, the experience of ally purchased custom-made. The garments are made with a River & The Thread’ making her new album The River & stretch stitch (which means the The Thread — a song cycle about seams move with you instead the American South — would result of popping apart) in a soft, knit F fabric that is machine washable, in a profound moment of self-discovery. season-less in weight, timeless The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter in style and stocked in 15 colors. and daughter of American music icon Dresses o!er a choice of neck- Johnny Cash had been born a Southerner, line, hemline, sleeve length and in silhouettes more or less in Memphis, but left for the West Coast closefitting. Measurements are when she was still in diapers. taken at the stomach as well as “For years, I thought that being born in the hips and bust. Frankly, it’s great to have a Memphis was kind of a footnote in my life, smart, comfortable dress in a THE because I didn’t live there that long: ‘Oh, good fabric and without a hem that’s just where I was born,’” says Cash, that rises to here or a neckline that plunges to there. 59. “But in the process of going back so A knee-length, cap sleeved many times and writing these songs and sheath, a popular style, typi- exploring the South and the Delta, it just cally costs $145. You can turn it hit me: This isn’t just where I was born, into a suit with a long matching cardigan, also $145. Ballard of- this is where I come from, this fers periodic sales through her WAY is what I’m connected to. These e-mail list accessed at mg@mg- are where my people were. ballarddesigns.com. “It’s almost a cliché because See BALLARD, 6M so many people in middle age find themselves wanting to know the answers to certain questions: ‘Who are my ances- HOME tors?’ ... ‘What am I connected to, and how powerful is geography in my makeup?’ And, as it turns out, it’s pretty powerful.” Cash is finally poised for a proper home- coming: on Friday, she’ll be spending the day with students at Rhodes College’s Regional Studies program; she’ll also be giving a public talk at the Cooper Walker Place, the former home of the Galloway United Methodist Church, where Johnny

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VVœÕ˜Ì>˜VÞ`i}Àii ˆ˜ ÓääÈ vÀœ“ Ì i 1˜ˆÛiÀÈÌÞ œv a rare species or a species Marva Ballard, at her downtown design studio, works with a washable, comfortable knit fabric ˆÃÈÃÈ««ˆ] >˜`ˆ˜ÓääÇ ÀiViˆÛi` when a lot of people want that comes in many colors. > >ÃÌiÀà œv />Ý>̈œ˜ >Ãœ vÀœ“ to see it at the same loca- Ì i 1˜ˆÛiÀÈÌÞ œv ˆÃÈÃÈ««ˆ° tion.” BALLARD of the country as well. She now has two iÃV Ži ‡ 7 ˆiˆ˜ÃV œœ] i Ü>Ã> The prevalence of these from 1M representatives who fit women and o!er “i“LiÀ œv -ˆ}“> Õ À>ÌiÀ˜ˆÌÞ° small, inexpensive tools the collection on Long Island as well as a i ˆÃ VÕÀÀi˜ÌÞ “>˜>}ˆ˜} ˆÃ ÕÃ̈Vi i˜ÌÀi«Ài˜iÕÀˆ> i˜`i>ۜÀà ˆ˜ Ì i is increasing at a rate that new one in Columbus, Ohio. “We’re find- Տˆi
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CASH all the ghosts. There’s about my dad was his A song from 1M that haunted quality to humanity, not the fact (Johnny Cash’s) records that he was an icon. So I like on Sun, or the soulful try to keep it real. A song ‘The Sunken Cash and the Tennessee playing of (American like ‘The Sunken Lands’ Two gave their first per- Studios’) Tommy Cog- is real; the boyhood home Lands’ is real; formance. On Saturday, bill or Reggie Young. I project is real. The man she’ll play a free con- just tried to feel it and let who was my father, that the boyhood cert at the Levitt Shell it seep through me. We was real. The stu" that home project in Overton Park. were aspiring to make is this myth creation, Cash spent much of music that has that time- that’s not real to me. And is real. The her young life in Cali- lessness and transcen- I don’t try and control it man who was fornia and currently dence.” because that’s a thankless resides in New York. The resulting The task and it’s pointless and my father, that In between, she spent a River & The Thread com- can’t be done. So I just decade in Nashville as a pletes a trilogy of sorts try and keep my course was real. The young wife and mother, for Cash: her 2006 song steady: I show up for stu! that is when she was married cycle Black Cadillac was work, I remember who to fellow musician Rod- inspired by the deaths of and what are important this myth ney Crowell. But she her parents, while 2010’s to me and that’s what’s creation, says she failed to make The List was an album compelling.” a deeper connection of cover songs her fa- For fans and critics, that’s not real to the South. “That ex- ther had recommended. The River & The Thread perience was di!cult “Black Cadillac was about has proved quite com- to me.” and my marriage ended mourning and loss and pelling. Cash recently Rosanne Cash up falling apart, and it exploring that emotional earned nominations for just didn’t seem like I landscape; The List was album, song and artist of belonged there,” says really about a musical the year from the Ameri- Cash. “Sometimes you legacy and claiming that. cana Awards, and should have to get away to find This record embraces all be a strong Grammy con- these certain chords in of it: the legacy, the geog- tender later this year. your soul that start res- raphy, the music of the Cash, who will be onating again. I know Delta and beyond,” says touring through next that sounds vaguely po- Cash. May, has been getting etic, but that’s how it felt Although her recent strong reaction on the and what happened.” GABI PORTER records — and outside road as well. She’s been Cash would eventu- Rosanne Cash collaborated with husband/producer John projects, including a 2010 performing the album in ally remarry, settling Leventhal on a music trek that ignited her Memphis pride. memoir “Composed” sequence at her concerts. with her husband/pro- — have explored her “Doing it live that ducer/collaborator John s part of her trav- sonic tableau. Though personal and family his- way brings into relief ‘AN AFTERNOON Leventhal in New York els, Cash also re- a native New Yorker, tory, Cash has somehow the landscape of it, and City. She finally began to connected with he brought a nuanced managed to retain her the quality of traveling WITH ROSANNE reconnect with her roots Aher cousins in understanding of the re- own identity and vision through these songs. CASH’ several years ago after Memphis and again gion’s history to bear. for her art. But she read- It feels like a single trip Friday, 1:30 p.m. at Cooper getting involved with Ar- grew closer with Mar- “I have a deep a!n- ily acknowledges that and the audiences have Walker Place, 1015 Cooper kansas State University, shall Grant, her father’s ity for the music that’s there is “this juggernaut responded that way. St. The event is free which had purchased her longtime bassist, and his come out of the South, around my dad.” While This whole project has and open to the public, father’s boyhood home wife Etta. It was Leven- particularly that great most of the attention on been amazing; it’s been but seating is limited in Dyess, Arkansas. “I thal who suggested the confluence of blues and her father has been posi- one of the most satisfy- and reservations are get so many requests notion of developing an country, of Appalachia tive, the image of him has ing musical experiences recommended. To register, every year to participate album about the region and Africa and the Brit- been somewhat hijacked, of my life.” visit cbugiving.org. in Johnny Cash things: and their experiences. ish Isles, that has this reduced to a middle-fin- Returning to Memphis projects, films, books, “We weren’t interested strange and beautiful ger-thrusting caricature for the Rhodes events ROSANNE CASH plays, songs. I turn 98 in just doing ‘the next 12 nexus in Memphis,” says on T-shirts and Internet and Shell concert, Cash percent of them down,” songs,’” says Cash. “To Leventhal. memes. is also feeling like some- IN CONCERT says Cash. “I feel like it’s have a unifying theme “In my own way I “People do simplify thing she wasn’t sure Saturday, 7:30 p.m. not my place, and if that’s and fit the songs into the felt this experience as and create these one- she’d ever be: a proud at the Levitt Shell at what I was going to do, puzzle of that theme, to acutely as Rosanne, in dimensional images and Memphian. Overton Park. Free. For more information, go to that’s all I’d do. create an old-school con- the way an outsider can myths,” says Cash. “Some “I know the place bet- levittshell.org. “But (ASU) said they cept record, that seemed feel it. I’ve been dream- of it is based in truth, but ter and love it more now,” To hear samples from The were trying to purchase more interesting.” ing of and listening to it can’t possibly be the she says. “As a musician, River & The Thread go my dad’s boyhood home, They began with the and being moved by mu- whole truth. And a lot to come from Memphis, to rosannecash.com. and they wanted to not song “Etta’s Tune,” a trib- sic from that area for so of it is not based in any it’s an honor. I can’t even only make it a music ute to Marshall Grant, long that when I’m down reality. The most beauti- begin to tell you how heritage site, but also fo- who died in 2011 during there I let myself take in ful and compelling thing proud I am of that.” cus attention on the his- rehearsals for a Johnny toric aspects of the New Cash tribute show in Deal — because this Jonesboro. From there was a New Deal farming came a selection of oth- colony. They wanted to er deeply personal songs restore the whole col- like “The Sunken Lands,” ony. I said ‘Now that is written about the Cash something I want to get family’s hardscrabble involved in; that’s some- life in Dyess. On “Mod- thing that would mean ern Blue,” Cash sings the most to my dad.’” of her own awakening, Cash and Leventhal how she “went to Bar- began visiting the re- celona and my mind got gion, doing fundraising changed/So I’m head- events, meeting with the ing back to Memphis restoration team and on the midnight train.” exploring the colony. The couple also drew “I knew that my father from a wellspring of had a hard life as a boy,” Southern history, pen- says Cash, “but you go ning a haunting ode to there and you see these civil rights martyr Em- farms; the soil is called mett Till and bluesman gumbo soil, it’s so hard Robert Johnson (“Money to till. And the work Road”) and working up was so back breaking. the Civil War reflection I don’t think in modern “When the Master Calls times we can imagine the Roll.” how hard that life was. Musically, producer/ To see all that was very, multi-instrumentalist very moving. All of it Leventhal conjured the came alive for me.” album’s richly textured

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