This week on Beale Street Caravan, we dedicate the show to The Oxford American. OA is an American quarterly literary magazine “dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South.” Each year, the magazine devotes an entire issue to the subject of music and this year’s issue focuses on the incredible music from the state of Tennessee. We sit down with OA music editor Rick Clark in the BSC studio and let him take us on a guided tour of the stories and the exquisitely constructed playlist found on the 2 CDs that accompany each issue. It’s a live-in-the-studio listening session of the best mixtape you’ve ever heard.
