Bonnie Raitt Covers Skip James

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Posted almost 4 years ago

The original is posted here. Raitt follows James's open D guitar tuning.

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inrumford says Now that's weird I was listening to a bunch (well, for what little he recorded a bunch") of Skip James stuff the other day and was preparing to post when I got side swiped by life and didn't have a chance. Heck, I've even got skip's smiling mug sitting on my desktop in eager anticipation of an upload. Come to think of it, I sometimes live my life in eager anticipation of an upload, but that's a story for another time. In any case, Skip James + Bonnie Raitt, how can you go wrong! Great post, thanks!!

Permalink posted 04/26/2008
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Spike says
She does a beautiful job with this song. Her guitar arrangement doesn't copy all of James's picking rhythms, but so what?

In the movie Ghost World the middle-aged record collector meets a woman who actually likes Skip James's 1930 recording of this song. Totally implausible, right? Thank God for MOG!

Permalink posted 07/09/2008