JACK WHITE
is going to be on 60 Minutes Tonight.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/08/60II/main672415.shtml
Choosing Music Over Religion
Feb. 8, 2005
What's more improbable than a 29-year-old rock star teaming up with a 70-year-old country music legend?
Perhaps the fact that rocker Jack White of The White Stripes nearly became a priest, he tells Correspondent Mike Wallace.
White explains how he teamed up with Loretta Lynn to create a Grammy-nominated album, and how he gave up the priesthood for his music on 60 Minutes Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. As God was calling, so was the music. "I'd got accepted to the seminary in Wisconsin, and I was going to become a priest, but at the last second I thought, 'I'll just go to public school,'" White tells Wallace.
"I had just gotten a new amplifier in my bedroom, and I didn't think I was allowed to take it with me."
Years before, it was Lynn's life depicted in the film, "Coal Miner's Daughter," that inspired White. "I fell in love [with music] immediately," says White.
So it was a fateful day when he drove past her ranch decades later. "We saw a sign that said, 'Loretta Lynn's Dude Ranch,' " White remembers. "We drove into the property, and we saw the house. We couldn't believe it."
That led to White dedicating his next album, "White Blood Cells," to Lynn, who invited him to dinner after hearing of the dedication. While there, White rummaged through Lynn's belongings and found a treasure trove of inspiration.
"I was wandering around her house, looking for something to steal," says White. "And she caught me looking through these old songbooks."
Those books contained never-recorded songs that the country music legend had written about her life.
"I'd pick [a songbook] up and I'd go, 'What's that, Loretta?,'" says White, who found a song Lynn wrote about her mother.
That song, "Van Lear Rose," became the title track of the Grammy-nominated album Lynn and White created together.
"I think that Loretta Lynn is the greatest female singer-songwriter of the 20th century," says White.
― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)
"Ever notice how some bands have no bassist?
Why is that? And another thing that annoys me, do they really think that wearing only black, red, or white is a good idea? Call me an old fogey, but back in my day, even Johnny Ray wore blue at times...."
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 9 February 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)