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Lonnie Holley, the artist discovered late, who created sculptures from the rubbish of others and found publicity with vocal improvisations over meandering, often dark sound tracks. Or also: The story of the boy from the dive bar who was sold off, digged graves, lived on the poverty line until a lover’s label discovered him in 2012 and released his debut JUST BEFORE MUSIC, when Holley was 62. He reported on the album MITH (2018). of being in a “fucked-up America” where racism was still the order of the day.
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OH ME OH MY is yet another collection of songs steeped in heaviness and sadness, but also an update of his spiritually fueled African-American narrative. This still carries the lived pain with it, but then awakens hope in the next moment – we can find each other if we only strive for a deep understanding of the other. That’s the good news that Holley formulates in the title song together with Michael Stipe (REM): “Humans please listen / Because sometime it’s alright / To wonder a little deeper / I suggest you all go as deep as you can / Because I believe / The deeper we go / The more chances there are / For us to understand / Understand the oh me’s and understand the oh my’s”.
The songs with Justin Vernon and Rokia Koné point the way forward: “Kindness Will Follow Your Tears” and “If We Get Lost They Will Find Us”. The all-enveloping keyboard is played by Jacknife Lee, who produced the album and co-wrote all the tracks. OH ME OH MY transports good news in the sound: Lonnie Holley makes gospel, soul, ambient, funk and blues his accomplices in the current survey of the sensitivities of Afro-Americans in America.
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