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Issue 31: Ode to the South
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Please Note: BOOKER T COVER IS SOLD OUT
COVER STORY STAX RECORDS 50th ANNIVERSARY Two covers and over 20 pages of soul! STOP SMILING celebrates the 50th anniversary of the legendary Memphis label STAX RECORDS with the oral history of Booker T. & the MGs, tributes to Luther Ingram and Otis Redding and features on the label’s founders, session players and essential recordings For an additional $2, online orders will include a CD sampler of 10 Stax classics, featuring ISAAC HAYES, OTIS REDDING, THE STAPLE SINGERS, RUFUS THOMAS and more INTERVIEWS Photographer WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY + New Orleans mayor RAY NAGIN + journalist KARL FLEMING + author TOM PIAZZA FOOD The state of Southern cuisine with chef LEAH CHASE + JOHN T. EDGE of the Southern Foodways Alliance EXCERPTS “Twirling at Ole Miss” by TERRY SOUTHERN + “Homo Neanderthalensis” by H.L. MENCKEN SHORTS DAVID BANNER, MJG and UNK discuss civil rights landmarks + five essential works of Southern literature + five essential records by outsider artists MUSIC SHARON JONES + KINGS OF LEON + GRAM PARSONS + JELLY ROLL MORTON + TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS + Mississippi Blues: An Abusers Guide FILM “Southern Films, Actual and Fanciful” by JONATHAN ROSENBAUM PRINT WALKER PERCY + JOHN ROTHCHILD + CHARLES PORTIS + Face to Face: ALEX ABRAMOVICH and CHRISTOPHER SORRENTINO BARBARIC YAWPS Poetry reviews and Q&A with MATTHEW ROHRER BACK PAGE “Did Something Miss New Orleans?” a poem by Andrei Codrescu CD SAMPLER Ten classics from the Stax collection. This mix CD is exclusive to Stop Smiling’s Ode to the South Issue. Produced in association with Concord Music Group
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