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. ...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 14, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I started ringing the bell back in 2012, or so. I was living in Oregon. The economy was still recovering from the crash back then. And pretty much the only place I could dependably get a job was the Salvation Army. I went to Goodwill one day and found a...
by Lynn Oldshue | Dec 11, 2025 | A Southern Soul
Today is the 10th anniversary of Our Southern Souls. I can’t begin to say what all of the 2,222 people and their stories mean to me, but part of my devotion readings this morning came close. “When was the last time you listened to the stories of others?…Listening to...
