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The Rough Guide To Country BluesWhen it came to the compiling of this country blues album, the towering influence of a dozen or so of the giants of pre war blues made them totally un droppable. Therefore, with so many familiar names, the challenge lay with creating the best possible cross section of this most diverse of genres within the time constraints of a CD. Loosely speaking, country blues is best described as the first flowering of acoustic, mainly guitar driven forms of the

and musical and storytelling traditions that have been passed down through generations

This song borrows the chorus from is a traditional children's song that says 'Let's roast the sorghum and get ready for a party'

We present four of these new generation bands on the compilation - three from the UK (Grupo X

you couldn’t ride the rails or hobo around with a piano on your back

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joins northern Sudanese singer

Debashish opens with a boldly bluesy leitmotif

Mercan Dede presents a whirling rhythmic song topped with Zerina Cokoja's stretching

The role of the Zimbabwean mbira is paramount to Monoswezi's style

but as a boy he was famously photographed hurling stones at Israeli tanks

but probably contracted pneumonia

It also takes in the golden era of the 1950s and looks at the modern sound of the new ‘rainbow nation’