How did you start making music?
I just had a karaoke machine and an old keyboard that I found at a flea market and I had a station set up so I could practise and practise. I practised at a certain time of day. Then I moved from that to my paintings. I remember it well: I moved from the painting to my sandstone sculptures. I moved from that to my found objects. I did a song called “In My Garden”, and in that garden there was so much for me to contain] Matt Arnett and I had one tape that I gave to him. Matt listened to it and he said, “OK Lonnie, I’m gonna help you get something done about this”. He arranged for me to go to a place called Gee’s Bend, Alabama. We were working with some of the [] Gee’s Bend Quilters. They were redoing some albums by the people on those albums that were still living and Matt said, “Do you want to sit in and try some of these instruments and see what it would feel like?”
