Oxford American

The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992.

CONTRIBUTORS

What’s the Matter Now

Sundown Man

Eavesdropping on History

Cowboys vs. Texans

It’s Got Ahold of Me

On the X

An American Sound

The Basics of Love

Occurrence at Deep Ellum

That Drifting Place

Texas Calling

Born Warblin’

True Love Will Find You In the End

Don’t Sex With East Texas

Live at the Continental Club

On the Road With the Texas Tornado

PACK YOUR BAG (AND YOUR INSTRUMENT) FOR THE ULTIMATE ROAD TRIP • THE CROOKED ROAD’S MOUNTAINS OF MUSIC HOMECOMING, JUNE 12-20, 2015

SHE’S ABOUT A MOVER • PORTRAITS FROM A LIFE SHAPED BY MUSIC

GUY CLARK • OLD SCHOOL POET OF THE WORLD

We Always Needed You

WATCHING WILLIE’S BACK • "Mess with Willie Nelson and the next thing you’ll see is the wrong end of a gun held by the Devil himself." - Robert Paul English.

SEARCHING FOR LA PERDIDA

JAM NOTHIN’ BUT THAT SCREW

WE COULDN’T DO IT WITHOUT YOU. • Thank you for supporting our annual Southern music issue, now in its 16th year.

In Defense of Poetry Voice

Sympathy for the DEVIL • Don Robey and the Death of Johnny Ace

THE OXFORD AMERICAN SOUTHERN MUSIC ISSUE