by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 31, 2019 | A Southern Soul
In a year of heart-shaking stories, this is the face that keeps coming back to me. “People call me Elizabeth or Mama. The soul food restaurant with a family member didn’t take off that well in Mobile. An opportunity came up in this Chevron gas station in Fairhope and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 30, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“Survival depended on you as an individual. There were a lot of guys in my group who didn’t make it. I watched people tough as nails lose their minds. It is what is in your DNA. Are you a survivor, a leader, a follower? You don’t know until you are placed...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 29, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“I am a relic from World War 2. I volunteered for the service at age 18. I shipped overseas in the early part of 1944, just after D-Day and landed in LaHavre France. We worked our way into Luxemburg and Belgium. My biggest battle was the Battle of the Bulge. I had...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 28, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys had been trying to get me to record with him for three years. He wanted me for three days in his studio in Nashville. Three days? What you figuring on doing? I committed and went in early spring. I recorded the Cypress Grove album in...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 27, 2019 | A Southern Soul
Walking this morning and thinking about the Souls community and the stories of cancer, losing a son to a drug overdose, or barely making it to Christmas that you have shared in the comments. Or a story of losing everything in Hurricane Ivan and the gift of dishes that...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 26, 2019 | A Southern Soul
“We met in jail and got out yesterday. Now we are all that we have. God puts us in places for a reason. He’s an alcoholic and I am a drug addict. I am not going to let him drink and he is not going to let me do drugs. We are trying to help each other...
