Celebrate 30 years of the OA.
With original work from Imani Perry, Kristen Arnett, Diane Roberts, and so many others, our Spring Issue honors our past and looks into our expansive future.
Magazine
Issue 87, Winter 2014
The Texas Music Issue
Our 16th annual Southern Music Issue honors the legendary musical history of Texas and includes a twenty-five-song CD. The cover features Jim McGuire’s 1975 portrait of Guy and Susanna Clark.
“The music of Texas is as vast and hard to define as the Lone Star state itself; it covers every genre of American music—transcending culture, race, language, and historical circumstance—and yet reveals a distinctive soulprint that you won’t hear anywhere else.” — Rick Clark, Liner Notes
Points South
Tom Maxwell, What's the Matter Now
Sundown Man, by Nathan Salsburg
Eavesdropping on History, by Cynthia Shearer
An interview with Chris Strachwitz, by Dom Flemons
Ada Limón remembers the Lark of the Border
The Basics of Love, a story by Bret Anthony Johnston
Christopher C. King investigates a murder in Deep Ellum
Rachel Monroe tries on Roy Orbison's glasses
Amanda Shires was born warblin', by Aaron Alford
True Love Will Find You In the End, by Louis Black
Harrison Scott Key takes the mic
Live at the Continental Club, by Bill Bentley
James BigBoy Medlin hits the road with Doug Sahm
Features
SHE'S ABOUT A MOVER
by Margaret Moser
OLD SCHOOL POET OF THE WORLD
by Tamara Saviano
WATCHING WILLIE'S BACK
by Joe Nick Patoski
SEARCHING FOR LA PERDIDA
by Michelle García
JAM NOTHIN' BUT THAT SCREW
by Amanda Petrusich
SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
by Preston Lauterbach
THE MUSIC OF TEXAS
by Rick Clark
Poetry
Cowboys vs. Texans
by John Poch
We Always Needed You
by Naomi Shihab Nye
In Defense of Poetry Voice
by David Tomas Martinez
Art by Jim McGuire, Walker Pickering, Kevin Greenblat, Josh Verduzco, Bruce Jackson, Sandy Carson, Lippe Studio, Armando Alvarez, Jon Flaming, Petra Péterffy, Tracy Anne Hart, Allison V. Smith, James H. Evans, Fred Woodward, Kim Cadmus Owens, Baron Wolman, Ken Hoge, Marc Burckhardt, David Gahr, Dave Anderson, Eleanor Davis, El Franco Lee II, Ben Tecumseh DeSoto, Henry Horenstein
Cover: Guy and Susanna Clark, 1975, by Jim McGuire, www.nashvilleportraits.com