Lonnie Holley - Oh Me Oh My

Released 10th March 2023

Oh Me Oh My is both elegant and ferocious. It is stirring in one moment and a balm the next. It details histories both global and personal. Lonnie Holleys harrowing youth and young manhood in the Jim Crow South are well-told at this point his sale into a different home as a child for just a bottle of whiskey; his abuse at the infamous Mount Meigs correctional facility for boys; the destruction of his art environment by the Birmingham airport expansion. But Holleys music is less a performance of pain endured and more a display of perseverance, of relentless hope. Intricately and lovingly produced by LAs Jacknife Lee (The Cure, REM, Modest Mouse), there is both kinetic, shortwave funk that call to mind Brian Enos My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and the deep space satellite sounds of Enos ambient works. But its a tremendous achievement in sonics all its own.

Its also an achievement in the refinement of Holleys impressi