by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 18, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I am a senior at Fairhope High School. I need to find something to do with my life. I fish a lot and my mama fries them up. I want to have a boat to catch and sell fish. I have been fishing since I was four. I was 12 when my dad passed away. He taught me how to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 15, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I owned a recording studio over a dentist office at the Loop with Travis Turk, Nick Panayiotou and John Edd Thompson. The name was Product Sound Studio. We did most of our recordings at night so we wouldn’t disturb the dentist below. A good looking woman,...
by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 14, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I am fourth generation growing up in Mobile. I did all of my music industry work here and never left. My mother raised us on classical music and Broadway show tunes. When I started liking country music, she didn’t understand it. I woke up every morning to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 7, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“My grandfather opened this store in 1922. 99 years ago. He grew up in Germany, but his mother died and his father remarried. My grandfather couldn’t get along with his stepmother so he took a job as a cook on a ship to get away. He was 15 years old. The...
by Lynn Oldshue | Mar 3, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I am from Ohio. I went to Oklahoma and drilled gas wells. I lived with my wife and two young children in a 22-foot travel trailer. Reaganomics shut down drilling. In 1983, I joined the Marine Corps. I went to Beirut and North Africa. I came down to work in the...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 28, 2021 | A Southern Soul
“I’ve always been drawn to the special needs population. I was involved in a program in my high school that trained intellectually delayed teenagers to work at a nearby plant so they would have a job when they graduated. When I moved to Mobile for college,...
