Where Southern Soul Meets Memphis Magic
Explore our exclusive collaboration with La Panthère Studio, featuring the Memphis Music Issue + Vinyl LP, Limited Edition Southern Music Tee, and the Rhythm & Soul Tarot Deck!
Explore our exclusive collaboration with La Panthère Studio, featuring the Memphis Music Issue + Vinyl LP, Limited Edition Southern Music Tee, and the Rhythm & Soul Tarot Deck!
The 15th annual Southern Music Issue celebrates the music of Tennessee in 176 pages of writing and art and 50 songs on 2 CDs.
Presenting Jim Dickinson’s unpublished memoir. Plus: Rosanne Cash recalls her childhood; John Jeremiah Sullivan gets high on the upbeat; Amanda Petrusich listens to Bessie Smith. Additional essays by Jewly Hight, William Caverlee, Dom Flemons, Joe Hagan, and others. Poetry by Jamie Quatro. Fiction by Lucy Alibar.
Let's Put Him on the Air, by Christine Cooper Spindel
The 50,000 Watt Quartet, by David Henry
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, by Claudia Perry
Sing Like a Mountain, by Bill Bentley
Stax Magic, by Robert Gordon
Clogging with Cousin Pussyfoot, by Jewly Hight
The Page Turner, a story by William Caverlee
Connie Smith’s haunted heart, by John Swenson
The Grand Ladies of the Opry, by Laura Cantrell
Tennessee Pastoral, by John Grammer
The Muse of Memphis, by Holly George-Warren
Scenes from the Chocolate Orchid Piano Bar, by Andy Zax
The McCrary Sisters’ Gospel Journey, by Larry Nager
The Daughter of Music Row, by Holly Gleason
Stand Square, by Eliza Borné
Someday, by Daniel Brook
Long Way Home
by Rosanne Cash
Dear Charlie
by Joe Hagan
That Chop on the Upbeat
by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Everybody Knows You When You're Down and Out
by Amanda Petrusich
World Boogie Is Coming
by Joe Nick Patoski
The Search for Blind Lemon
by Jim Dickinson
Can You Blame Gus Cannon?
by Dom Flemons
We Had It All
by Norbert Putnam
The Music of Tennessee
by Rick Clark
Carl the Raping Goat Saves Christmas
A story by Lucy Alibar
Protestant Worshipper in St. Joseph's Cathedral, San Antonio, Texas
A poem by Jamie Quatro
Art by: Leigh Wiener, Bob Williams, Ernest Withers, Steve Jones, Jared Small, Benny Andrews, Sam Fentress, Tammy Mercure, Bill Steber, Greg Miller, William Eggleston, Wayne White, O. Rufus Lovett, Tamara Reynolds, Thomas Hart Benton, Michael M. Koehler, Jim Herrington, Nathanael Roney, Bob Bayne, Lamar Sorrento, Ben Shahn, Matt Henry, Joe Spake, Alan Ulmer, Jon Henry, RB, David Redfern, Gregg Roth, Henry Horenstein, Robert W. Kelley, Dave Brainard, Benny Joseph, Jamie Harmon, Ian Johnson, Jim Marshall, Eleanor Davis
Cover Photograph: “Johnny Cash, Los Angeles, CA, August 1960” by Leigh Wiener