VA - Oxford American Visions Of The Blues: Southern Music Issue No. 18 (2016)

The CD features classic blues (Charley Patton, Allen Toussaint, Big Mama Thornton) alongside contemporary artists reinterpreting the genre (Alabama Shakes, Bassekou Kouyaté, Regina Carter), plus rare recordings (including a never-before-released vintage CeDell Davis track). The magazine contains new work by some of the best music writers of our time (Greil Marcus, Daphne A. Brooks, Elijah Wald, John Jeremiah Sullivan) and essays by first-time Oxford American contributors (Jeffery Renard Allen, Rashod Ollison, Sarah Bryan, Zandria F. Robinson), as well as stories from OA regulars (Amanda Petrusich, Jewly Hight, Cynthia Shearer, David Ramsey).

TRACKLIST

01. Allen Toussaint – Rocks In My Bed
02. Koko Taylor – Yes, It's Good For You
03. Gil Scott-Heron – New York Is Killing Me
04. Scott Dunbar – Memphis Mail
05. Adia Victoria – Stuck In The South
06. Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba – Segu Blue
07. Charley Patton – Down The Dirt Road Blues
08. Ida Cox – Wild Women Don't Have The Blues
09. Otis Taylor – Ten Million Slaves
10. Big Mama Thornton – Black Rat
11. John Lee Hooker – John Henry
12. Cedell Davis – One Of These Days
13. Bobby Rush – Chicken Heads
14. Geeshie Wiley & Elvie Thomas – Pick Poor Robin Clean
15. Barbara Dane – You Don't Know Me
16. Tail Dragger – My Head Is Bald
17. Alabama Shakes – Miss You
18. Alexis Zoumbas – Epirotiko Mirologi
19. Bonnie Raitt – I Feel The Same
20. Regina Carter – Trampin'
21. Etta James – I'd Rather Go Blind
22. John Fahey – Sunflower River Blues
23. Etta Baker & Cora Phillips – Railroad Bill