Lonnie Holley

Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My

Released 10th March 2023 ‘Oh Me Oh My’ is both elegant and ferocious. It is stirring in one momen...

Released 10th March 2023 ‘Oh Me Oh My’ is both elegant and ferocious. It is stirring in one moment and a balm the next. It details histories both global and personal. Lonnie Holley’s harrowing youth and young manhood in the Jim Crow South are well-told at this point — his sale into a different home as a child for just a bottle of whiskey; his abuse at the infamous Mount Meigs correctional facility for boys; the destruction of his art environment by the Birmingham airport expansion. But Holley...