“They let me go from Mount Meigs, Alabama in 1964/But with some cuts and bruises that I would never forget”
Oh Me Oh My
JAGJAGUWAR
ALBUM OF THE MONTH 8/10
“EVERY now and then we get a”, declares Lonnie Holley, on the title track of . The Birmingham, Alabama native has consistently demonstrated his abilities across 45 years as a self-taught visual artist – among his early creations were memorials made from waste sandstone blocks for a niece and nephew who died in a fire, because the family could not afford gravestones – and he’s also been making music for much of that time. But he didn’t have the opportunity to release his debut album until 2012, when he was 62. Now, it seems, his time has truly come.
