by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 1, 2026 | A Southern Soul
“I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but my dad is from Mobile, and my mom moved us down to Mobile when I was young. I was splitting my time between school in Mobile and summers in Cleveland. I had to figure out how to navigate both. I started playing basketball in...
by Lynn Oldshue | Feb 1, 2026 | A Southern Soul
“I’m turning 100 in January. My grandparents owned the property where the Dew Drop Inn is in Mobile. They had a big home and a small restaurant there. Back then, Old Shell Road was made out of shells. People rode horses on it; my mother and aunt would ride as fast as...
by Lynn Oldshue | Jan 4, 2026 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in California and was about 13 when I started working for music tours. There was a drummer at my local church who I consider to be like my uncle. He was playing drums with Rick James and Teena Marie. He saw this light in me and asked me to go on tour to set...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 28, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I’m a child of the beat generation. I was influenced by beats, jazz, and improvisation. Jack Kerouac was a beat-generation novelist and wrote the book, On the Road. That was my inspiration, and I quit school at Ole Miss the semester before I was going to...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 21, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I like to dress up and do this all of the time. I’m a member of the Prissy Peacocks. We are part of the Sweet Potato Queens. I give out stuff to strangers every year for Christmas. I gave out 30-something loaves of Amish bread already. I give out pencils, pens, and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 19, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I played music as a kid, but spent more time in the woods. We’d run off in the creeks, disappearing into the trees from sunup to sundown. Squirrel hunting. Fishing. Trapping. Country-boy-out-in-the-woods stuff. And music was always there, running alongside it. ...
