Tag: Lonnie Holley
Nothing can stop the inimitable Lonnie Holley
Atlanta-based artist and performer Lonnie Holley never plays the same song twice. Through thought-smithing, this septuagenarian songster has produced five studio albums since 2012. His latest, released in March, is Tonky—his childhood nickname from when Holley lived in a honky-tonk.
A new podcast examines an Alabama reform school that functioned more like a prison farm for Black kids
Unreformed, hosted by Atlanta journalist Josie Duffy Rice, unearths how things went horrifically wrong at the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children during the first half of the 20th century