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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011 - TRACY NELSON has one of the signature voices of her generation. That natural gift has always guided TRACY NELSON's soul; indeed allowed her to both write and seek out the deeper songs regardless of niche or genre. A fierce singer of truth, a fountain of the deepest heartache, she is an ultimate communicator and has regularly destroyed audiences across decades of performing. She is one of the few female singers who has had hit records in both blues and country genres, performing with everyone from MUDDY WATERS to WILLIE NELSON to MARCIA BALL and IRMA THOMAS, with Grammy® nominations for both her country and blues efforts. JOHN SWENTSON, writing in ROLLING STONE, asserted, "TRACY NELSON proves that the human voice is the most expressive instrument in creation." With VICTIM OF THE BLUES (DELTA GROOVE), her 26th album in just over five decades, she has circled fully, back to the original music from South Side Chicago that mesmerized her teenaged mind in the mid-1960s. VICTIM OF THE BLUES is a hand-picked collection of songs, most written by NELSON’s early heroes: MUDDY WATERS, JIMMY REED, PERCY MAYFIELD, LIGHTNING HOPKINS, JOE TEX and HOWLIN' WOLF. She has chosen 11 songs of the day, ones that were spilling out of AM radios from second-story apartments, rolled-down car windows, and live from darkened clubs with exotic names like El Macambo.

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