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Oxford American Music Issue
| GUEST,Arkie | 05 May 03 - 04:58 PM | |
| Peter T. | 05 May 03 - 06:03 PM | |
| Burke | 05 May 03 - 08:04 PM | |
| GUEST,Arkie | 05 May 03 - 11:30 PM | |
| GUEST,T-boy | 06 May 03 - 08:07 AM | |
| GUEST,Russ | 06 May 03 - 11:46 AM | |
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Subject: Oxford American Music Issue From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 05 May 03 - 04:58 PM I have not seen mention of the Oxford American Magazine annual Music Issue which is now out and wonder what Catter's think about it. I only discovered the magazine last year and have had the current issue in hand less than three days. I wish I had known about the magazine sooner. Here is the tracklist for the accompanying CD. Tracklist: 1. "Why You Been Gone So Long" - Johnny Darrell 2. "Total Destruction to Your Mind" - Swamp Dogg 3. "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" -The Del McCoury Band 4. "La Chanson d'une Fille de Quinze Ans (Song of a Fifteen Year Old Girl)" - Ann Savoy and Linda Ronstadt 5. "Swan Blues" - King Pleasure 6. "Run on for a Long Time" - The Blind Boys of Alabama 7. "Evelyn Is Not Real" - My Morning Jacket 8. "Lake Charles Boogie" - Nellie Lutcher 9. "Hot Rod" - The Collins Kids 10. "No Headstone on My Grave" - Esther Phillips 11. "El Paso" - The Gourds 12. "Leaving Loachapoka" - Marshall Chapman 13. "Grits Ain't Groceries" - Little Milton 14. "Killer Diller Blues" - Memphis Minnie 15. "Miss Maybelle" - R.L. Burnside 16. "God Moves on the Water" - Blind Willie Johnson 17. "Niki Hoeky" - P.J. Proby 18. "See That Coon in a Hickory Tree" - The Delmore Brothers 19. "Leaning on You" - The Yo-Yo's 20. "You and Your Sister" - Chris Bell 21. "Columbus Stockade Blues" - Willie Nelson 22. "A Little Girl from Little Rock" - Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell 23. "Goodnight Moon" - Will Kimbrough The emphasis is on southern music as many catters will recognize. I was glad to see Johnny Darrell represented. He introduced such songs as Green, Green Grass of Home, Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town, and With Pen In Hand, and had the best versions in my opinion although other artists who covered the songs had bigger hits. |
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Subject: RE: Oxford American Music Issue From: Peter T. Date: 05 May 03 - 06:03 PM Glad to see it back from the dead -- it has been on its death bed for awhile -- the music issue last year was fun, though not very deep. yours, Peter T. |
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Subject: RE: Oxford American Music Issue From: Burke Date: 05 May 03 - 08:04 PM Named for Oxford, Mississippi; I found on an Old Miss website that it was purchased & moved to Arkansas with the same editor. Go here for more information about getting copies. |
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Subject: RE: Oxford American Music Issue From: GUEST,Arkie Date: 05 May 03 - 11:30 PM While the magazine calls itself a journal of southern writing, it puts out one issue each year featuring a broad spectrum of southern music along with a CD. That one issue usually sells out. I thought that this year's issue was actually focused a bit more on the music but I have only vague recollections of the 2002 music issue. I focused more on the CD. This time around I have been reading through the magazine and have yet to hear the CD. I do like the fact that a number of forms of music are represented as well as older and newer artists. |
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Subject: RE: Oxford American Music Issue From: GUEST,T-boy Date: 06 May 03 - 08:07 AM It may be concentrating on Southern (US) music, but track 3 is written by (UK's) Richard Thompson. Del McCoury Band are brilliant though. |
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Subject: RE: Oxford American Music Issue From: GUEST,Russ Date: 06 May 03 - 11:46 AM I am not familiar with the previous incarnations of Oxford American. I was given a subscription as a gift. Positive, After 2 or 3 issues, I am pleased with OA in general. Having read the music issue cover to cover, I dub it a worthy effort. Less Positive, I found the music issue very idiosyncratic. Sometimes in a pleasing way, sometimes not. Quite a hodge-podge. The writing was quite variable (of course). Occasionally the articles were more about the author than the subject, although "What X Means To Me" seems to be a popular contemporary style. The writing was occasionally opaque to a geezer, for example, parts of the article about "My Morning Jacket" In general, I have found articles written by fans ("My Morning Jacket" again) to be not very useful and noticed no counterexamples in the music issue. Not everyone had done all his/her homework. For example, one author didn't realize that "Jilson Setters" was actually a pseudonym. It was an odd choice for an example anyway. The choice of selections was sometimes baffling in an annoying way. Given the remarkable body of recorded music from the Delmore Brothers, there's no good reason for representing them with a throwaway piece like "See That Coon in a Hickory Tree". The author was apparently struck by a floating verse found in a zillion other songs of that ilk. I felt that such a choice signaled that the author didn't really "get" the Delmores. "Columbus Stockade Blues" from Willie Nelson was simply dreadful. Someone has either been listening to Willie way too much or not nearly enough. |
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