Lonnie HolleyBest Lonnie Holley Albums Ranked
8.2
Avg Score
14
Opinions
4
Albums
7
Reviewers
Summary from 14 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Lonnie Holley's catalog across 4 albums from 14 opinions, with an overall average of 8.2/10. The top-rated Lonnie Holley album is MITH (2018) with a 8.4/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by Oh Me Oh My and Tonky. The discography on Wavelength spans 2018 to 2025. None Of Us Have But A Little While ranks as the highest-rated Lonnie Holley song on Wavelength with a 8.2/10 average.
Tonky
“Lonnie Holley’s Tonky is a masterful history lesson for the world we deserve”
Oh Me Oh My
“A tremendously affecting collection of songs.”
National Freedom
“Those familiar with the incredible story of Lonnie Holley will know that he’s a man with scant regard for convention, and those who aren’t would need only a cursory listen to his last record, 2018’s wildly mercurial MITH, to realise that experimentation is his lifeblood. Few contemporary artists have anything like as voracious an appetite for working outside of recognised parameters as Holley, or ”
MITH
“Born in Birmingham, Alabama, and residing for many years in Atlanta, ‘remarkable’ doesn’t quite do Lonnie Holley’s life story justice. Growing up in an America still in thrall to Jim Crow laws, the first thirty years of his life were marked by constant struggle, from abject poverty to jail time, to barely surviving a serious car accident. When he started to make visual art at the age of 29, workin”
Tonky
“Like all of Holley’s albums, Tonky is poetry set in motion through fluid, emotional music composed by Jackknife Lee. The artist’s language is rhythmic and his stories are concentrated, even when they span centuries and chronicle memoirs of slavery, abuse, ancestry and change.”
Oh Me Oh My
“At 73, the outsider artist has made his most ambitious and approachable album: an extraordinary aural memoir that tells a cosmic story of survival.”
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