This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Ballads: Web Edition
An online extension of our annual Southern Music Issue
“That’s how I know a ballad is powerful: it forces you to go full out, toward perfection.”
Kendra Allen
The Playlists
Southern Music Sampler Vol. 25—Ballads (full credits)
Gracias a la Vida by Clarissa Frogoso Pinheiro (from “Gracias a la Vida”)
Church Girl by Noah Taylor Britton (from “Never Walk Alone”)
Nocturnal Bliss: A Quiet Storm Playlist by Rayceen Pendarvis (from “Never Alone in the Night”)
At the Top of Your Lungs Is a Power Imbalance by Kendra Allen (from “At the Top of Your Lungs Is a Power Imbalance”)
Staff Recs: Ballads (read more)
About Her Voice: Mariah Carey's Artistic Lineage (from “About Her Voice”)