Artist Lounge: Skip James
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These recordings are about forty years apart and the last was recorded forty years ago roughly. Fascinating.
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Happy Birthday to Skip James, born on this day in 1902 in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Despite recording only a few sides for Paramount Records in 1931 and two albums in the 1960s, James had such an arrestingly unique style that he was a key influence on many Mississippi bluesmen, including the fabled Robert Johnson. Skip James (born Nehemiah Curtis James) is viewed as the foremost practitioner of what is known as the "Bentonia" school of Mississippi blues (Bentonia was a sm... MORE
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Skip James is one of the Delta Blues singers of the 1930's who was 're-discovered' in the early 1960's and who's work is now well-known.
Skip is mainly celebrated for his original of the song 'I'm So Glad' popularised by Cream.
But apart from the acoustic guitar blues, Skip could turn his hand to a mean piano blues, as this demonstrates.
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For me, there are songs that I love instantly and there are songs that have to grow on me. Skip James' Devil Got My Woman was one of the ones I loved instantly (and yes I heard it for the first time while watching Ghost World). The vocals were just so haunting it made my heart literally ache.
I hate that a song is never the same as the first time you hear it. It never hurts quite like it does the first time. And now I sound like I'm talking about losing ones virginity, but... MORE
I hate that a song is never the same as the first time you hear it. It never hurts quite like it does the first time. And now I sound like I'm talking about losing ones virginity, but... MORE
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Not this post, unfortunately. Hence the blues. But the damned winner isn't a bad fit with the number and is worth checking out. \m/
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Illinois Blues
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This post is a tribute to my favourite old and contemporary bluesmen
Here's a video of Alvin Youngblood Hart performing Skip James' Illinois blues
and the original song
