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“Your lyrics is what really makes your song, where I’m concerned. It’s not the music; it’s the lyrics.” — Rev. Willie Morganfield, this issue, p.68
Commentary on Captain Beefheart, Vic Chesnutt, Nanci Griffith, Lorette Velvette, Lee Dorsey, and many more. Features an interview with Reverend Willie Morganfield by Tom Piazza as well as a history of Tom Wiggins by John Ryan Seawright. Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan, Sven Birkerts, Steve Yarbrough, and more.
Also: R.E.M.–inspired art. Appreciations by Dave Marsh and Rosanne Cash.
Editor's Box
Dealer's Choice
by Hal Crowther
Waving not Drowning
by Julia Reed
Gone off up North
by Roy Blount Jr.
Southern Charity:
Payback Time
by Peter Cooper
Analysis:
The Something File
by Ron Carlson
Punk Rock:
In Enemy Territory
by Mark Binelli
Avant-Garde:
Look, No Hands!
by David Hajdu
Road Diary:
Notes from the Underground (Twang Tour)
by Marty Stuart
Influences:
Come Back, Captain Beefheart
by Mark Richard
History:
The Life & Times of Louis Jordan
by Don Bellini
Humor:
The Southern Songnut
by Jeff Baker
Appreciation:
Vic Chestnutt
by John J. Sullivan
Appreciation:
Every Hillbilly Can Govern
by Dave Marsh
Appreciation:
The Archangel
by Rosanne Cash
Rhythm & Blues
Lee Dorsey
by Geoffrey Himes
Album Art
Who's That Girl?
by Mark Lane
Art Portfolio:
Visions of R.E.M.
Southern Cuisine:
Stand By Your Pan
by John T. Edge
Argument:
The Gangsta Myth
by Anthony Walton
Argument:
In Defense of Music Row
by Bruce Feiler
Southern Labels:
Raw Musics
by Bill Friskics-Warren
Southern Labels:
Daemon Records
by Russell Hall
Book Review:
The Forbidden Sacred Music
by R. Dante Sawyer
Album Reviews:
Crossing Country
by John Morthland
Album Reviews:
Johnny Mercer
by Will Friedwald
Album Reviews:
Nothing Comes from Northing
by Nicholas Dawidoff
Retrospective:
Rosemary Clooney
by Gary Giddins
Comics
by P. Revees
Southern Scenes
by Alice Ochs
The Hackberry Ramblers Are in the House!
by Michael Tisserand
Sidebar
by Ben Sandmel
Sacred & Profane in Clarksdale
by Tom Piazza
Slavery Onstage
by John Ryan Seawright
The Big Time
by Steve Yarbrough
Feet in Smoke
by John J. Sullivan
Walking After Midnight
by Sven Birkerts
Othar Turner
by Max Carl
Pops Staples
by Geoffrey Himes
Stuart Duncan
by Gregory Spatz
Magnolia Sisters
by Ed McKeon
Dave Myers
by Robert Gordon
Sidebar
by Trent Apple
Nanci Griffith
by Rick Clark
Lorette Velvette
by JoBeth Briton
Ben Folds Five
by Paul Zollo
Olu Dara
by Daniel Cooper
The Mavericks
by Michael McCall
