― Jack Brown, Thursday, 1 May 2003 12:28 (10 years ago) Permalink
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― Becky (Rebecca), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:46 (10 years ago) Permalink
Has anyone seen the new one yet? http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/ Nice article on the "Blonde on Blonde" sessions (included in its entirety on the website), and I'm digging the CD.
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:17 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Jazzbo, Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
I love that photo of Monk on the cover. Does anyone know where that comes from?
― Brad C., Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:45 (5 years ago) Permalink
Idolator highlighted the article on the blog buzz band effect that focussed on North Carolina band the Annuals.
I always buy these music issues and enjoy them even if the Oxford American applies the same approach to the enclosed cd every year. I wish they'd expand their definition of Southern music beyond archival soul & garage rock and recent indie rock. Surely there must be some current chitlin circuit soul and southern rap that's clean enough to include.
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 11 October 2007 05:00 (5 years ago) Permalink
I love these each year - haven't bought the new one yet.
― Eazy, Thursday, 11 October 2007 05:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
the new one's CD has "Cadillac on 22s"
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 11 October 2007 20:15 (5 years ago) Permalink
Cool. They're widening their horizons.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:39 (5 years ago) Permalink
I love that photo of Monk on the cover. Does anyone know where that comes from? It must have been taken during the "Monk Underground" sessions, because it looks almost identical. I love the fact that's playing a big old upright, rather than a concert grand.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
BTW that's got to be one of the all-time great cover shots.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 12 October 2007 13:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
I've always wondered if that was the same room The Basement Tapes cover was shot in.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 12 October 2007 14:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
Mike Powell doesn't write for them anymore?
― jaymc, Friday, 12 October 2007 17:49 (5 years ago) Permalink
Yes, he does--
Mike Powell fills in the blanks on what happened to the tragically anonymous Fred Neil, author of “Everybody’s Talkin,’” a song was made enormously popular by Harry Nilsson. Fred, meanwhile, practically disappeared. But in unearthing Fred’s records, Powell discovers a singer whose voice “fluttered through melodic turns with the surreal volatility of birds. Blues vocalists are often praised for sounding like their tragedies are worn into their throats like notches in a tree; Neil sounds much more alert and much more passive. His best vocal passages aren’t dried tears, they’re winks. Smirks, even.”
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 October 2007 18:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
Oh, I must have missed that.
― jaymc, Friday, 12 October 2007 18:13 (5 years ago) Permalink
Actually Mike has two pieces in this issue.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 14 October 2007 18:10 (5 years ago) Permalink
Uh? (Making this more of a general Oxford American thread.)
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 July 2012 17:40 (11 months ago) Permalink
more herehttp://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/07/16/founder-and-editor-marc-smirnoff-out-at-oxford-american#readerComments
― andrew m., Monday, 16 July 2012 19:23 (11 months ago) Permalink
very interesting
― curmudgeon, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/07/16/smirnoff-planning-on-fighting-dismissal-from-oxford-american
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:56 (11 months ago) Permalink
Thinking it's more than just giving drinks to interns, but who knows.
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 17:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/books/oxford-american-editor-fired-in-sex-harassment.html?ref=arts
Weird how he admits to certain things
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 August 2012 13:48 (10 months ago) Permalink
We hold our work retreats on Petit Jean Mountain too. It's quite the party spot.
― pplains, Thursday, 9 August 2012 14:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/blogs/post/2012/jul/25/alex-rawls-named-guest-editor/
Alex Rawls from New Orleans mag Offbeat will likely do a fine job as guest editor of the December 2012 issue
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 August 2012 16:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
Very much so!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 August 2012 16:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
Lord have mercy.
http://editorsinlove.com/
― pplains, Thursday, 9 August 2012 21:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
That's a web design that just sucks...you in.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 9 August 2012 22:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
Oy veh. Wow, Fitzgerald is sticking with Smirnoff despite all the allegations against him.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 August 2012 13:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
We have additional photos of Enzinna and his finger available on request.Hilarious.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
“I understand that I walk a fine line with my joking, my banter,” Mr. Smirnoff said, comparing himself to the bumbling boss played by Ricky Gervais on “The Office.” “I have made bad jokes. My intent with regards to that humor is just as important.”
god, i wonder how many shitty bosses out there these days think "oh David Brent/Michael Scott does this" like that makes it okay
― Pollopolicía (some dude), Friday, 10 August 2012 14:49 (10 months ago) Permalink
Then, after insisting that the intern ride back to Conway with him, he asked her if she wanted to hold hands. She declined, he said, saying she’d rather “hold hands with a dead dog.” Still, he told her he wanted to take her to his favorite make-out spot.
... During a conversation with the same intern earlier that week, Mr. Smirnoff said, he hugged her and kissed her on top of the head.
None of those things constitute harassment, he insisted.
“It was acceptable to her in that moment,” he said, saying that she did not object to his behavior at the time.
How is it that 20 years after Anita Hill we still have people so unclear on this concept?
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 10 August 2012 20:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/issues/31/
New issue out with focus on Louisiana music. Guest-edited by Alex Rawls who used to edit Offbeat.
The new permanent editor, Roger Hodge, is a former Harper's editor who was born in Texas:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/oxford-american-names-roger-hodge-editor-after-tumult-of-predecessors-firing/
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2012 03:23 (6 months ago) Permalink
Looks promising (or maybe just the same magazine as before but minus office drama).
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 December 2012 15:46 (6 months ago) Permalink
Saturday, February 23rdAt Shreveport's historic Municipal Auditorium
FROM ELVIS TO HANK TO JOHNNY: Celebrating 65 Years of the Louisiana Hayride 2:00 PM: Panel discussion: Preserving Our Musical Heritage featuring Alex Rawls, guest editor of the Oxford American Louisiana Music issue, Maggie Warwick, Dan Garner, Eddie Giles, J Bratlie, and Ron Hardy 4:00 PM: Lt. Governor Jay Dardenne and BP America present Sunshine By The Stars: Celebrating Louisiana Music, a film starring Harry Connick, Jr. and featuring The Marsalis Family, Better Than Ezra, Tim McGraw, Rebirth Brass Band, Trombone Shorty, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Guy, Buckwheat Zydeco, Irma Thomas, Zachary Richard, Zion Harmonizers and Mickey Gilley
6:45 PM: The music begins featuring Shreveport’s Dirtfoot
7:45 PM: Louisiana Hayride Band featuring Maggie Warwick
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
― curmudgeon, Friday, 22 February 2013 16:31 (3 months ago) Permalink
Spurred on by hearing Margaret Lewis' demo version of "Reconsider Me" on this year's Oxford disc, I picked up Shreveport Stomp; digging it a bunch. RAM Records was a cool, female-owned Shreveport label releasing blues, country, swamp pop and even surf instros.
http://www.amazon.com/Shreveport-Stomp-Ram-Records-Volume/dp/B0000009IF
― Nataly Dawn's echoey swamp sound (Dan Peterson), Friday, 22 February 2013 16:47 (3 months ago) Permalink