The Body are Rhode Island natives Lee Buford and Chip King, an avant-metal unit whose noise-and-sludge-nihilism has grown increasingly adventurous as they’ve sought to distance themselves from the insular genre-worship of their metal peers. Their recent album for Thrill Jockey, No One Deserves Happiness, draws as much from Beyoncé and ‘80s dance as doom metal, and nails their mission to create “the grossest pop album of all time,” as they told FACT in March. It’s easily one of our favourites of 2016 so far. Buford’s FACT mix has nothing to do with any of that, though. Instead, he’s put together a mixtape of spine-tingling blues from the 1940s and earlier, featuring Delta bluesmen like Charley Patton and Bukka White, gospel-fired guitarists like Rev. Gary Davis, and several recordings made by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, from the stark intensity of Arkansan folk singer Almeda Riddle to the rowdy group singing of unknown prisoners in Southern penitentiaries. Content warning: they don’t call it the blues for nothing.