“DARKER, MORE REAL” by Allison Bulger
“WE TOURED the FACTORY CITIES and CAME BACK DEAF” by Lucas Church
“The PRESLEY BROTHERS” by Molly Gloss
“ACTS of MERCY” by Philip Connors
“LOOKING for a DO-RIGHT CHILD” AND “MACEO REVEALS his INSUFFICIENT SWEETIE” by Cyrus Cassells
“The BEARD” by K Chess
“WILLOWS” by Steve Young
“FIVE VARIATIONS on a BLACKBIRD” by Leah O’Sullivan
“The FOLK SONGS of WASHINGTON COUNTY” by Jefferson Navicky
“WHAT WE PLAY FOR” by Jackie Sizemore
“BORIS the BLOODHOUND” by Jennifer Lynn Christie (with audio)
“A FLIGHT of VOICE” by José Sotolongo
“MELLON COLLIE DAYS” by Robert Hinderliter
“HOLE in the WALL” by Benjamin Soileau (with audio)
“STONE CEDARS” by Shelly Weathers
from COUNTRY DARK (previously unpublished excerpt) by Chris Offutt
“UNCLE JACK” by A.R. Robins
“The MAGIC DOBRO PLAYER” by Karla Huebner
“MERMAID LOUNGE” by Blake Sanz
“DANCE the WIRE” by Michael McGlade
“LUNAR HYMNS” by Ryan Alan Boyle
“CLEAN” by Constance Squires
“The POWER of LETTING EVERYTHING GO” by K. Joffré
“A RUSH of SILENCE” by Danielle M. Mullen
“LIVE MUSIC TODAY” by Jack Donahue
“DRAKE in SERVER CITY” by Phillip Scott Mandel
“The MISSING PART” by Charles Wilkinson
“RURAL ROUTE” by Sarah Starr Murphy
“BOHEMIANS” by K.C. Wilson
“FINAL VINYL DAYS” by Jill McCorkle