Artist	Song
Conlon Nancarrow	Prelude
Johnny Darrell	Why You Been Gone So Long?
The Hackberry Ramblers	I'll Be There
Chris Ardoin & Double Clutchin'	Good Times
Chris Bell	You and Your Sister
Earl Scruggs w/ Billy Bob Thornton	Ring of Fire
The Hodges Bros. & the Hi Rhythm Section	Best in Town
Kate Campbell	When Panthers Roamed in Arkansas
Kevin Kinney	Dirty Angels
King Pleasure	Swan Blues
Esther Phillips	No Headstone on My Grave
Geechie Wiley	Last Kind Words Blues
David Johansen & the Harry Smiths	James Alley Blues
Marshall Chapman	Leaving Lochapoka
Randall Bramblett	Get In Get Out
Kevin Gordon w/ Lucinda Williams	Down to the Well
Othar Turner	Station Blues
Nellie Lutcher	Lake Charles Boogie
The Delta Rhythm Boys	What Would It Take
My Morning Jacket	Evelyn is Not Real
Steve Young	Long Way to Hollywood
Leadbelly	Nobody Better Than Us
Swamp Dogg	Total Destruction to Your Mind
Sistser Rosetta Tharpe	Nobody's Fault But Mine
Will Kimbrough	Goodnight Moon

Comment:

An ode to the OA. It looks like the on-again off-again Oxford American magazine is off again. It was fun while it lasted, especially the annual music issue with the free sampler CD. Every year (when it was publishing), the Music Issue presented dozens of articles about Southern music in all its forms and eras and genres. And the free CD was always a real gem, chockablock full of well known and obscure artists. It was a great way to renew old acquaintances, meet new artists, and enjoy great writing about one of my favorite subjects. I spent many a happy hour with the CD in the player and my nose in the magazine. The magazine and the CDs have been a source of inspiration (and tracks) for my own "Mysterious South" series. As I was lamenting the real possibility of a year without a Music Issue, I pulled out my Samplers for consolation and put some of my favorite cuts on a disc -- at least some that I haven't already included in mixes. And here they are. Even the leftovers are treasures.

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