by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 28, 2025 | A Southern Soul
Gary: “I saw Helen at a dance and made up my mind that she was going to be my girlfriend. She didn’t like that and wouldn’t have anything to do with me for the longest time. I knew her daddy and would go home with him, but she’d leave. After a while, she kind of got...
by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 28, 2025 | A Southern Soul
Ted: “We were brothers in California, learning how to play music at a pretty young age. Our mentors gave us this advice: ‘listen to the music that the people you like listen to.’ Our parents were baby boomers, so we grew up listening to Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and...
by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 23, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I had just turned eighteen. I walked into my daddy’s restaurant on Main Street in Greenville, South Carolina, and a young man was talking to him. Long Army coat, flat hair. He had already been to World War II. Daddy introduced me to him. We said a few words, but I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Sep 23, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I grew up in the community of Grace, outside Rolling Fork, Mississippi. I feel like my family made up most of the community. Everybody was a farmer. School was 20 miles away. Greenville was the big city 30 miles north of us. We were in the middle of nowhere. I lived...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 30, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“My uncle used to fly me in to play gigs with him at The People’s Room. That was all I knew about Mobile. I was in Los Angeles when the Palisades fire happened. There weren’t any gigs, and it was a stressful time. It felt like staying would keep me stuck, so I...
by Lynn Oldshue | Aug 24, 2025 | A Southern Soul
“I was born in 1922 in Wheeler, Mississippi. At two years old, we moved to De Kalb, Mississippi. So I lived there in Kemper County until I was 13 years old. We lived in a great big house with two stories, and we opened the windows and had a cross breeze and fans. That...
