Newsweek article about Stevie's healing music
 

Wild at Heart
By Marc Bain | NEWSWEEK
Published Jun 20, 2009
From the magazine issue dated Jun 29, 2009


One of the subjects in the Interview Project, an on-the-fly Web documentary series hosted by surrealist filmmaker David Lynch, is a round-faced man named Clinton, who shares an experience he had years ago at a Stevie Nicks concert. Her singing, he says, opened up a "sixth sense" in him. When his mother died years later, he had planned to commit suicide, but it was Nicks's songs that saved him. The story would be a laugh if it weren't so wrenching. He believes in his tale of -ecstatic salvation.

The project's interviews, each a glancing few minutes and filmed during a 70-day, 20,000-mile road trip led by Lynch's son, Austin and a friend, largely feature Americans living on the margins. The elder Lynch introduces them in his halting, deadpan way, and his site will post a new clip every three days for a year. Depression, confusion and abuse are recurring themes. A woman named Lynn, abused as a child, calls herself "broken." But viewed as a whole, the project is a tale of endurance. Lynch has long been transfixed by the underbelly of small towns, and through his son, he takes us the closest he's ever come to the real thing.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/202621

Stevie has healed many a lost soul, many a woman in torment.

She seems to connect with her fans.

But which Stevie song was it that saved him? If I were at a real low point and I heard Running Through the Garden, that would be the deciding factor that drove me towards suicide.

When I'm home I just listen to news and podcasts (very much in love with Gervais, Merchant and Karl Pilkington) when I'm driving, but when I'm out of town in a rental car, I listen to country music and I am crying non-stop. It's almost comical how easily those songs get the waterworks going for me. But I believe it's cathartic too. I believe when I climb out of the car sniffling, with a soggy kleenex clutched between my fingers, that I'm actually in a much better mood than when I got in.

Michele