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The Happiness Blues

Since his first recordings in the 1940s, B.B. King exuded a sunny elegance very much at odds with the tragedians of the early blues.

By Ted Scheinman
Issue 92, Spring 2016

You Dumb Bell

I do not want her generic or sentimentalized. I want her to be somewhere between the girl surrounded by white blossoms in a lily pond and the...

By James Seay
Web Feature

Men Playing Men

I realize I’ve been watching men perform all my life—for each other, for women, for lovers.

By Carter Sickels
Eyes on the South

You are Where you're Supposed to Be

Through processed photos, image-based artist Billie Carter-Rankin witnesses her grandmother's growth in Milwaukee as part of the Southerners who...

By Billie Carter-Rankin

Points South Live featuring Margo Price and Jodi Hays in conversation with Alice Randall

Join us in Nashville for a night of music and conversation!

Save the Date: Oxford American Presents Shovels & Rope

The OA presents folk-Americana duo Shovels & Rope for a concert and fundraiser celebrating the OA's 30th Anniversary!

“Reckoning comes before reconciliation and often begins at the table.”

—Alice Randall

Podcast

If You Would Know Us

KaToya Ellis Fleming investigates the backlash and legacy of violence caused by the 1898 Wilmington Massacre in North Carolina and a performance by the American folk duo Birds of Chicago.

Half My World

Tess Taylor explores Anne Spencer's poetry and a live performance by Lucy Dacus. This episode marks the first time Anne Spencer's voice will be broadcast outside of the Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum.

The Borderlands

A dispatch from the Rio Grande Valley and a performance by Adia Victoria

Eyes on the South

You are Where you're Supposed to Be

By Billie Carter-Rankin

Hunting for the Archetype

By Julie Dermansky

An Historic Transformation

By Blake Burton

An Overwhelming Cacophony

By Ian Mahathey

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—Dolly Parton

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