Oxford American # 107, Winter 2019

The Music of South Carolina
Notes on the songs, including:

"Down to the Graveyard"
George Singleton on Moon Pie

"Bad Case of the Blues"
Katie Moulton on Linda Martell

Marshall Chapman on her "Guitar Song"

"Paradise"
Liam Baranauskas on Charlie McAlister

"My Father Is a Witness, Oh, Bless God"
Blain Roberts & Ethan J. Kytle on the Plantation Echoes

"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"
Benjamin Hedin on Alice Wine

Benny Starr on his “Resurrection”

Plus
Brendan Greaves, KaToya Ellis Fleming and Diaspoura

POINTS SOUTH

Early Recordings, by Thomas Pierce

Enchanted, a poem by Ciona Rouse

Eartha Kitt, Coming Home, by Latria Graham

Lowcountry for Old Heads, by Dave Tompkins

Beyond the Sea, by Sarah Bryan

I Make of You What I Will, by Mark Powell

The Knoxes of Murrells Inlet, by Eric Crawford

Cut Me Loose, by Joshunda Sanders

Talking Drums, by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Set the Country to Stamping, by Robert Greene II

Esquerita and the Voola, by Baynard Woods

I Remember His Sweetness, by Maxwell George

More Like African Music, by Melvin Gibbs

FEATURES

Clara & Josephine
A poem by Nikky Finney

The Wonder of It All
In Ron McNair’s Orbit
by Jon Kirby

Sing Across the Ocean
South Carolina is our past and our future, and Ranky Tanky celebrates the middle
by Zandria F. Robinson

Like a Shovel and a Rope
Notes on family and a family band
by David Ramsey

Now I Don't Know Who I Am
Mixed (race) feelings about Columbia’s Toro y Moi
by Lauren Du Graf



Art by: Carter/Reddy, Ndidi Emefiele, Alex Harris, Katherine Dunlap, Dorothy Chapman Josey, Sean Rayford, Jack Tottle, Diana Davies, Paul Chelmis, Sam Doyle, Shara Hughes, Carrie Mae Weems, Sarah Hobbs, Brennan Booker, Adam Ekberg, Irene Tison, Derrick Adams, Radcliffe Bailey, Alex Gardner, Giuseppe Pino, Carl Van Vechten, Jeremy M. Lange, Kennedi Carter, Robert Beatty, Keisha Scarville, Sully Sullivan, Teppei Kaneuji, Steve Daniels, Dave Jordano, Ruta Smith