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The Athens of the South...
South Mouth Okay, the new Southern Music Issue of the Oxford American magazine zinged into my mailbox Monday, complete with its fourth
Southern music compilation CD, including songs by Randall Bramblett and Kevn Kinney. In addition, there's an article about Randall and one
about Kevn. Now, I've formerly thought that the OA concentrates too much on "stars" in its music issues—national names that everybody's
heard—and not enough on all the excellent musicians who are not household words all over the country. I offered that observation to one
of their editors at the South By Southwest music conference this spring, but now I have at least partly to take it back. Last weekend I ran
across the OA's 1997 compilation CD and thoroughly enjoyed it (and noticed that not all of the players were "stars"). Then here comes the
new one, and it's got Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Wilco with Billy Bragg and Alejandro Escovedo along with Doc and Merle Watson,
Randy Newman, Dolly Patton, Dean Martin, Ronnie Milsap and Gov. Jimmie Davis, among others.
Stanley Booth wrote the story on Randall (or at least held the tape recorder and let Randall talk). Booth is a big-name music writer and
an interesting character. This OA has also got the latest installment of the new John Grisham novel (A Painted House) and lots of musician
profiles and stones about music. If you don't know the Oxford American, this is a good chance to get acquainted (it's pricey at S8.50; you
can read it in the library, but you can't keep the CD).
Revitalization Word on the street is that something quite interesting may happen with the New Way Cleaners building on Prince Avenue,
something that does not involve a chain drug store. If so, itll blend right in with the renaissance along there that started with the Big City
Bread vision which turned a rundown corner on the edge of a poor section into an upscale coffee drinker's, bread fancier's, natural market
shopper's dream. The Go corner was transformed; the Grit has expanded and remained true to itself; Smith Wilson and the Nesmiths are
turning the old Coca Cola plant into an upscale mixed-use paradise. What wonders await? How much will we have to pay for a Coke?
Pete McCor.imons (editor@flagpole.com)
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