Tenth Annual Southern Music Issue

Dec. 2008 - Issue: 63

A Special Tenth-Anniversary Edition (with two CDs!)

Let the parties begin—The OA’s 10th Anniversary Music Issue is out! To celebrate this special birthday, we’ve packed TWO groovin’ CDs with firepower: enough fierce, funky, and fun music to keep your days and nights rockin’ into 2009 (and beyond). That’s right, kids, this issue is accompanied by FIFTY-FIVE party tunes (from Jack Tea to Jerry Lee, Little Walter to Lucinda, plus thrills and chills galore).

You’ve been clamoring for ’em and here they are: Founder and Editor Marc Smirnoff's CD Liner Notes!

In addition to the music, the issue is chockful of exuberant and daring writing by some of the best writers in the country (and one or two from abroad).

Shangri-La in Memphis (a great record store and record label) has this to say about the issue: “Check out the bitchin’ cover pic of Jerry Lee Lewis in Mad Plaid! It’s fun time around the Shangri-La HQs when this issue comes out, and this year is no exception. Order it from the folks who keep Southern culture flowing.”