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Piano Blues, the essential DOUBLE CD More Info on our New Store >> |
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Skip James 1931 Skip James; vocal, guitar, piano.
Mississippi blues, Miississippi blues guitar, country blues guitar.
Informtive booklet notes by Chris Smith.
Detailed discography.
With his high, eerie falsetto and haunting guitar tunings, Skip James sounds like no other country blues player. Although his lyrics were generally drawn from the floating bag of clichés that showed up in countless blues songs, his atmospheric recordings, done in 1931 for Paramount, gave James' songs the appearance of poignancy, and his sad, lonely vocal style made them all seem heartfelt. When he was rediscovered in the mid-'60s, his skills were still intact, and he made several solid recordings for Vanguard and other labels, but his reputation really rests on the 18 tracks from the 1930s presented here. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Skip James Live Volume 1- Boston 1964 & Philadelphia 1966 More Info on our New Store >> |
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Skip James Live Volume 2 - Bloomington 1968 Part 1 DOCD-5633 Skip James � The Complete Bloomington, Indiana Concert � March 30th 1968 Skip James, vocal ,guitar. Genres: Mississippi Blues, Country Blues, Country Blues Guitar. Informative booklet notes by Dr. Peter Narv�ez Detailed discography On the night of this Skip James concert, performed at the student�run Indiana University Folksong Club at Bloomington, Indiana the small auditorium was filled with about two hundred persons who knew more about local bluegrass traditions (Bill Monroe's Sunday bam fests took place in nearby Beanblossom) than blues, but who enjoyed listening to various forms of traditional music. As one can hear on this recording, they were not disappointed. Continued... More Info on our New Store >> |
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Skip James Live Volume 2 - Bloomington 1968 Part 2 More Info on our New Store >> |
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If You Take Me Back - Document Shortcuts Volume 2. Blues Sampler More Info on our New Store >> |
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