The Rough Guide to Blues Revival

The Rough Guide to Blues Revival
Compilation album by Various artists
Released	21 April 2009
Genre	World, blues
Length	101:03
Label	World Music Network
Full series chronology
The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revival (2008) The Rough Guide to Blues Revival (2009) The Rough Guide to Klezmer Revolution (2008)
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The Rough Guide to Blues Revival is a blues compilation album originally released in 2009. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album contains two discs: an overview of the contemporary scene on Disc One, primarily featuring American artists, and a "bonus" Disc Two highlighting Malian Samba Touré (a reference to the commonalities between the American Blues and West African music). The compilation was produced by Phil Stanton, co-founder of the World Music Network.^[1] Curation was performed by Nigel Williamson, a music journalist and author of the book The Rough Guide to the Blues.^[2] The term "blues revival" refers to the resurgence of the genre after the success of Stevie Ray Vaughan.^[3]

Critical reception

Jim Allen of AllMusic took issue with the title (claiming the genre "never went away") but named it a "pretty accurate sonic snapshot of the contemporary blues scene". He called the Malian choice for Disc Two "an interesting left-field touch".^[4]

Track listing

Disc One

No.	Title	Artist (Country)	Length
1.	"How Deep in the Blues (Do You Want to Go)"	Robben Ford	4:21
2.	"Another Man Done Gone"	Irma Thomas	3:50
3.	"Ain't Got Time"	Eugene "Hideaway" Bridges	3:32
4.	"You Got to Move"	The Blind Boys of Alabama	3:33
5.	"Something Heavy"	Shemekia Copeland	3:18
6.	"Needed Time"	Eric Bibb	5:12
7.	"Monday Morning Blues"	Savoy Brown & Kim Simmonds	5:07
8.	"Lost in the Congo"	Doyle Bramhall	4:32
9.	"The Dream"	Deborah Coleman	4:03
10.	"Stealin All Day"	CC Adcock	4:15
11.	"Big Skaky"	Kelly Joe Phelps	4:49
12.	"Country Ghetto"	JJ Grey & MOFRO	4:02

Disc Two

All tracks on Disc Two are performed by Samba Touré, a guitarist from the Tombouctou Region of Mali who, though not related by blood, was raised as a protégé of Ali Farka Touré.^[5]

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Anbafo"	5:04
2.	"Ali Farka"	5:52
3.	"Mali Kadi"	5:19
4.	"Idje"	4:45
5.	"Man Ye Wogne"	4:50
6.	"Almoude Yona Toure"	4:40
7.	"Yawoye (live)"	2:12
8.	"Takamba (live)"	5:11
9.	"Anbafo (live Niafunke 2006)"	5:31
10.	"Foda Diakaina (instrumental)"	4:34

References

1. World Music Network. "About Us - The WMN Story". Retrieved 2013-12-21.
2. Rough Guides. "AUTHOR :: NIGEL WILLIAMSON". Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 2014-01-30.
3. World Music Network. "The Rough Guide To Blues Revival". Retrieved 2014-01-30.
4. Allen, Jim. "The Rough Guide to Blues Revival". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 Jan 2014.
5. "Samba Touré". Retrieved 2014-01-30.

External links

• Official website