Inspired by blues artists Guitar Slim and Jimmy Reed, and pop acts Elvis Presley and Brenda Lee, and winning several local talent shows, she created an all-female band, Bobbie Lynn and Her Idols.

[4] Singer Joe Barry saw her and introduced Lynn to producer Huey P. Meaux, who ran several record labels in New Orleans.

[7][8] Unusual for the time, Lynn was a female African American singer who both wrote most of her own songs and played a lead instrument.

Soon Lynn was touring with such soul musicians as Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, James Brown, Al Green, Carla Thomas, Marvin Gaye, Ike and Tina Turner, the Temptations, and B.B.

This, together with dissatisfaction with poor promotion by the record company, contributed to her decision to largely retire from the music business for most of the 1970s and 1980s.

[2] However, while living in Los Angeles, she occasionally appeared at local clubs, and released several singles on Jetstream and other small labels.

She resumed her recording career after her husband's death, and returned to her hometown of Beaumont, Texas, where her mother lived.