All Rendered Truth
Some Lonnie Holley archives
Two years ago, feeling a little like Truman Capote writing In Cold Blood or James Baldwin writing Evidence of Things Not Seen, his under-known true crime investigation of the Atlanta child murders, I traveled to Atlanta on assignment. The assignment was to profile artist and now friend, Lonnie Bradley Holley, Sr. I met with him in different cities across several months and was to produce a longform essay for his monograph. That book is finally in print and we’re about to embark on a mini press tour for the occasion. I’m also writing about his new album, Tonky, which has been released to accompany the book, but feel the need to share this (attached below), what became the monograph essay, with some of you ahead of that, so that the next writing is rooted in a deeper awareness of who this man is, and who we may be in relation to him.
