Can I commend this wonderful thing to the Massive if nobody's done so? Every year the Oxford American magazine (that's Oxford, Mississippi) does a music issue with a CD attached. This year's is actually a double CD, one devoted just to Arkansas music - a total of 53 tracks of Southern soul, country, r&b goodness from the past 50 years with a whacked-out intro from Lucinda Williams (the way she says Arkansas is almost worth the admission price on its own). It's an amazing mixture of the half-familiar (Bukka White, Billy Lee Riley, Baby Washington, Sleepy LaBeef, Sonny Burgess) and the definitely not (Johnny & Dolores, the Windbreakers(!), Bobby Brown and the Curious, Little Bob & the Lollipops and the Gunbunnies). It costs just south of 14 quid to have it sent to the UK - a bargain, especially since the mag contains great writing about every single track. You could probably [ahem] get the music on a torrent near you, but then you wouldn't get the mag and that would be a shame, because it's definitely a keeper.

More details here including how to buy a copy: http://bit.ly/1f7vNd