Mister Trend's Random 10

Son House is far and away my favorite blues musician. Nobody had a voice like his - that gravelly, pleading, hardened tenor voice. And nobody played quite like him, either. Learning from Charley Patton, and a contemporary of Robert Johnson (Johnson reportedly learned a fair bit from Son House), he's usually overlooked among the historians of music, as Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters get more credit for rock in the general narrative, and more credit goes to Patton and Blind Willie McTell among the scholars. Son House may not have been the best in terms of technique, or the best singer, or the most revolutionary, but to me, he's absolutely my favorite, the best there was, in the old, delta blues. Every CD collection should have Son House in it. Period.

1. “Texto Toalha da Saudade/Imitação/Hora da Razão” – Maria Bethânia
2. “The Free Design” - Stereolab
3. Symphony No. 10 – First Movement (“The Final Problem” – Glenn Branca
4. “You Need Love” – Muddy Waters
5. “Fuckoff Is Not the Only Thing You Have to Show” – Cansei de Ser Sexy
6. “If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day” – Robert Johnson
7. “Pony Blues” – Son House
8. “Blaise Bailey Finnegan III” – Godspeed, You Black Emperor!
9. “Come On and Ride With Me” – Cedell Davis
10. “Metal Machine Music, Part II” – Lou Reed