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Skip James Today! (CD)

By: Skip James (Artist)

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Skip James Artist Snapshot:

Skip James is one of the most revered Delta blues artists of the 20th century. His high, haunted vocal style and bone-chilling acoustic guitar work gave him a sound that set him apart from his peers. The recordings he made in the early 1930s are among the most powerful in the blues canon. However, he quit music not long after that and was out of the public eye for decades until he was rediscovered and coaxed out of retirement in the '60s. He became a hero of the '60s folk revival in the US and an inspiration to the British blues boom, and his songs were covered by everyone from Cream to John Fahey. James got plenty of media attention in the early 2000s as well, his music playing a vital role in both the 2000 film GHOST WORLD and the Wim Wenders-directed portion of Martin Scorsese's 2003 documentary series THE BLUES.

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DISC 1 for Skip James Today! (CD) Album By Skip James (Artist)
1   Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
2   Crow Jane
3   Washington D. C. Hospital Center Blues
4   Special Rider Blues
5   Drunken Spree
6   Cherryball
7   How Long
8   All Night Long
9   Cypress Grove
10   Look Down The Road
11   My Gal
12   I'm So Glad
 

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After Skip James laid down some of the spookiest, most resonant tracks of the first wave of Delta blues, he fell off the radar for years, but like many of his contemporaries, he was "rediscovered" in the '60s by folk/blues historians and given a second phase of his career. The 1965 release TODAY! is perhaps the finest moment of James's latter-day work. Incredibly, his haunted voice and hypnotic guitar style seem to have magically avoided the ravages of time. Hearing him revisit some of his greatest tunes, such as "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues" and "Special Rider Blues" (and even a contemporary composition, "Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues"), is like seeing a spirit long-gone revisiting the world to wail some ghostly plaint once more.

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