ATLANTA -- At the bloody heart of ''Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,'' the Southern gothic musical by Stephen King and John Mellencamp, is a tense sibling rivalry between a novelist with a dark streak and a blue-jeans-wearing crooner. Frank (Lucas Kavner) and Drake McCandless (Justin Guarini) are surely meant to evoke younger versions of the...
ATLANTA NO one told John Mellencamp that he'd bought a crime scene. But after signing the papers for a cabin in his home state, Indiana, in the early 1990s he learned that it had been the backdrop for a deadly love triangle a half-century earlier. Two siblings arguing over a girl got into a fight at their family's lakeside cabin. ''The younger...
''The decay of America is original and massive in its scale,'' reflects Kurt Markus, the esteemed photographer, who, with his son, Ian, filmed the small, pungent rock 'n' roll tour documentary, ''John Mellencamp: It's About You.'' Stark evidence of that assessment is strewn throughout this very personal record of the 2009 summer tour of Kurt...