Coolest Song Ever Right Now: Robert Pete Williams - "Prisoner's Talking Blues"

Despite the unnerving fact that Dire Straits - "Walk on By" has been entering my head everytime I get in the car for the last week, I declare this number as the Coolest Song Ever Right Now.

Spectral. Moving. Haunted. Elemental. Its like this is a hard, damaged little acorn of a song that the entire Oak of Music grew from.

The whole album is as good as the cover promises, eschewing the usual musicological aridity plaguing similar collections (Arhoolie complilations are the best) and is actually filled to capacity with moving and entertaining performances, and this song is but the first on the disc, but perhaps its all you need.

Robert Pete Williams - "Prisoner's Talking Blues"