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JERRY LEE LEWIS ON COVER OF NEW MAGAZINE, ‘TWISTED SOUTH’
Twisted South Picked Up For US Distribution By Barnes & Noble, Borders, Walden Books And Book World; European Distribution To Be Announced Shortly
Memphis, Tennessee,  January 2011—Twisted South Magazine Has just released its Winter issue of it’s hard copy quarterly magazine. The eclectic magazine featured Billy Bob Thornton on the cover of issue 1 and has iconic rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis on its second with a second cover of Unknown HinsonTwisted South was intended to be a small, southern, regional magazine, but when Barnes & Noble saw it they ordered it for all of their U.S. stores.  Borders, Walden Books and Book World followed suit. The magazine is rich with music, and also features fashion, travel, food, art and short stories. Sports is handled in an out of the box way; for example, midget wrestling and roller derby.  The magazine’s material stretches the geographical borders of the South from Los Angeles to Florida.
Twisted South Magazine was born in the mind of writer, Zeke Loftin, after his interview with Janis Joplin’s longtime guitarist was turned down by several Texas magazine editors. “I wanted artists, musicians, writers and photographers to have a publishing vehicle not just be confined to the internet if they had the talent, but not the fame.,” commented Twisted South executive editor Loftin.  “I also wanted to create a forum for my many talented, southern friends to get noticed.  We live in an era where people must win game shows to get record deals, staff writers are ,”turfing,” out as magazines fold; artists who do not always fit the formula simply need a place to exist in a hard copy format. Hard copy magazines are not going anywhere unless the doctor’s office wants to start handing out lap tops. And people are tactile they love the feel of a magazine.” 
·         Now backed by one of the largest distributors in the U.S., Kable Media, the unorthodox magazine will be announcing European distribution shortly as well. Twisted South hit another homerun when Library Journal impressed with the first issue indicated it is a magazine to watch out for. They stated in their review of the magazine: “Twisted South is published from Hardin, TX, a municipality of 755 souls. Someone harboring assumptions based on those demographics will be startled, rattled, and rolled by this weird magazine.”
Twisted South, inspired by Austin, New Orleans and Nashville, has central musical theme, but also incorporates interviews, recipes and an eccentric mix of unexpected topics.  It depicts lesser-known aspects of the southern culture, embracing the weird, odd and the essential, eccentric South.”  Twisted South is a quarterly publication priced at $6.99 U.S and Canada.  Iconic Hell’s Angel, Sonny BargerThe Founder of the Hell’s Angel’s is slated for the cover of their spring issue.
Kable News media also selected this magazine as one of the three featured in their back page section as, “What the publishers are reading.”
Jerry Lee Lewis’s current CD, Mean Old Man is distributed by Verve Records/Universal Music.  Produced by Jim Keltner and Steve Bing with Phoebe Lewis as executive producer, it features guest performances by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Slash, Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow, Ringo Starr, among others.

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