Granny (Lucinda) White by the Bus of Love Band

This first of 3 coming song releases tells the story of Lucinda White, one of America’s most amazing women, through the eyes of Joe, her husband’s slave. She was born in the early 1700s when Eastern America was a bunch of British colonies. God only knows when she married Zach, a soldier who survived the revolution but not Native American…WAIT! Just listen. Question: Do I release the sequel next, or the prequel? The prequel is a Celtic answer to the question: Who’s Nelly? The Sequel: I couldn’t find words to tell Zach White’s story so I let the band.

I’m a touring Singer Songwriter with a freaky tour bus that can actually drive using only sunlight and water. That’s right. I can power my 454 gasoline engine with Hydrogen and Oxygen gas that I split out of water using Solar power. (So far, I’ve only gotten 14 miles doing so until my wires got hot and melted the PVC fittings on my 9 HHO fuel cells.)

I’ve never had a record or publishing deal until now so I’ve been able to write about things I really care about without concern as to whether or not the “Label” will approve or Radio will play my songs. This true story about someone known as Granny White took place from the mid 1700s to the 1800s. Yet it is relevant to today’s problems with injured soldiers and their families. Lucinda White’s story is one of the most inspiring things I’ve ever heard and I have to tell it in a Trilogy of Songs.

This first release begins when Lucinda’s Husband comes home from battle in a long pine box. Lucinda White was born in North Carolina before the Declaration of Independence. She grew up during the American Revolution. Her husband, Zach, was killed in battle with Indians afterward. The same campaign orphaned her best friend, Nellie’s 2 boys, Will and Thomas. The Army promised a section of land to families of soldiers killed in battle but there was a catch. The widow had to pay the surveyor fee. Neither Lucinda nor her neighbor, Nellie could afford it. They were left penniless.

Nellie went crazy and asked Lucinda to take care of her 2 boys, rather than have them taken by the State of Carolina to an orphanage. Distraught and heartbroken, Lucinda white asked Zach’s slave and his wife if they’d like to walk 800 miles west to Tennessee and start over.

Lucinda’s story should be in every American History book but it isn’t. She survives a terrible loss of her young husband, yet, thrives and examples wisdom and compassion. There is a prequel and a sequel on the way. I hope you find her amazing as I do.

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