Future Blues: A Celebration of Paramount Records is a multi-artist tribute compilation honoring Paramount Records, the Wisconsin furniture company that became one of the most important early blues and old-time labels between 1917 and 1932, documenting artists from across the roots music spectrum presenting material drawn from the Paramount catalog. Rhonda Vincent plays mandolin and sings, contributing her reading of period material to a program that draws from the same pre-war American vernacular recording tradition that bluegrass subsequently absorbed. The Paramount catalog — which documented artists ranging from Blind Lemon Jefferson and Ma Rainey to white mountain and old-time performers — represents one of the richest archives in American acoustic music history, and the tribute format invites contemporary performers to engage with that material from across the tradition's full breadth.