OA Music x2

It's not hard to get excited about the always great music issue of the Oxford American.  The CD alone is worth the price of a year's subscription to the magazine.  And now comes word from the good folks at OA that they now have a sponsor for this year's 10th anniversary music issue and, get this, it will include a double CD of music!

CMT [Country Music Television] will be the exclusive sponsor of The Oxford American magazine's 10th anniversary Music issue.

The sponsorship will be used to produce the first-ever double CD of Southern music that will accompany this special edition of the magazine, which will be released in November.

Since its introduction in 1998, the Music issue has been the best-selling issue of The Oxford American each year.  It has twice won the National Magazine Award for single-topic issue, in 1999 and 2004, and it consistently has received wide critical acclaim.

The Oxford American's Music issue always is accompanied by a CD featuring a diverse mix of great Southern music identified by the magazine's editor, Marc Smirnoff.  This year will be the first time a double CD is offered.

"We are pleased to be the exclusive sponsor of The Oxford American's 10th anniversary Music issue and double CD, which is sure to be the best yet," said Andy Holeman, Vice President of Marketing at CMT.  "CMT's partnership with The Oxford American's Music issue goes back several years, and we are very proud to continue our support of this wonderful effort highlighting such a great and diverse landscape of music."

"The Oxford American is extremely grateful for CMT's generous support of our 10th anniversary Music issue," said Warwick Sabin, publisher of The Oxford American.  "CMT's exclusive sponsorship will ensure a high-quality, unique and groundbreaking Music issue and double CD for our readers and fans."

Comments

[Pete]

Great news. I just hope this year they don't do the intro/CMT shout-out on the same track as the first song again, which totally ruined the Eldridge Holmes tune last year. Now every time I want to hear Holmes' soulful take on "If I Was a Carpenter", I have to endure Daniel Johnston's awkward spoken into first.

[georgekaplan]

Although I've always been happy to get the CD, I'm afraid I'm going to weigh in and say that, after 8-10 issues, all the pieces start to read the same, almost like the musicians/bands are interchangeable. I really liked the home issue, but the my-little-secret music articles one after another just aren't fresh for me anymore.

I think it just needs to stop being annual.

Of course, if I were asked to write something, I'd probably jump at the chance. Not that it wouldn't read any differently.

[F Horn]

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