by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 17, 2024 | A Southern Soul
“I was raised in Money, Mississippi. My dad was a sharecropper, and I helped him pick cotton. He also had side hustles to support his nine kids. One of those hustles was making moonshine and selling it to juke joints. My job was filling the containers with...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 15, 2024 | A Southern Soul
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by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 11, 2024 | A Southern Soul
“I was born on Cape Cod in New England. My dad served in the Navy during World War II. My mother left us after the war. I was eleven years old with four younger siblings. My dad had no one who could care for us, so we were placed in a state-operated children’s...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jul 29, 2024 | A Southern Soul
Here’s the cover of Our Southern Souls Vol. ll. Pre-sale starts at the beginning of September and the book comes out in October. Seeing all of these beautiful faces in one place makes me happy.
by Lynn Oldshue | Jun 30, 2024 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in Bay Minette, Alabama, quitting school in the eleventh grade to pursue music. I was five or six and singing in the bathtub. I knew then that I would play music and sing, but I didn’t take lessons or have the tools to do it. My uncle once visited and...
