Blues from the Delta (CD)

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.

• Category:  Music  »  Blues  »  Delta
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: August 11, 1998
• Label: Vanguard Records (USA)
• UPC: 015707951722
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106625920
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #88280 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2048 in Blues (See Top 100 Blues Bestsellers)
• #63 in Delta (See Top 100 Delta Bestsellers)

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Skip James's 1930s recordings were among the finest in all of Delta blues, but VANGUARD SESSIONS: BLUES FROM THE DELTA contains performances from the second phase of James's career, when he was "rediscovered" by folk revivalists in the '60s, along with so many of his peers. Nevertheless, this era of his work holds a magic all its own. If anything, his haunting vocal style sounds even spookier, moving even more often into an otherworldly falsetto, and he brings a whole new feeling to songs he'd recorded decades earlier, like "I'm So Glad" and "Devil Got My Woman." Even though the aged bluesman's technical facility may not have been what it once was, he more than made up for it in raw, visceral feeling, and this is an excellent sampling of his latter-day work.

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