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Complete Early Recordings (1930) by Skip James (CD, Aug-1994, Yazoo) 
Complete Early Recordings (1930) by Skip James (CD, Aug-1994, Yazoo)

 
Complete Early Recordings (1930) by Skip James (CD, Aug-1994, Yazoo)

Artist: Skip James
Release Date: Aug 1994
Format: CD
Record Label: Yazoo
Genre: Blues, Delta
UPC: 016351200921
Product ID: EPID3174522
Description: Personnel includes: Skip James (vocals, guitar, piano). Includes liner notes by Steve Calt. THE COMPLETE EARLY RECORDINGS by Skip James is one of the most essential blues albums in existence. With a voice that sounds like wind carving aw...
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Track Listing
1. Devil Got My Woman
2. Cypress Grove Blues
3. Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues
4. Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues
5. Drunken Spree
6. Cherry Ball Blues
7. Jesus Is a Mighty Good Leader
8. Illinois Blues
9. How Long "Buck"
10. 4 O'Clock Blues
11. 22-20 Blues
12. Hard Luck Child
13. If You Haven't Any Hay Get on Down the Road
14. Be Ready When He Comes
15. Yola My Blues Away
16. I'm So Glad
17. What Am I to Do Blues
18. Special Rider Blues

Details
Distributor:E1 Distribution (USA)
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Mono
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Skip James (vocals, guitar, piano).
Includes liner notes by Steve Calt.
THE COMPLETE EARLY RECORDINGS by Skip James is one of the most essential blues albums in existence. With a voice that sounds like wind carving away rock (he sings in a high, quavering falsetto ringed with knowledge and pain), James laid down some of the most chilling acoustic blues ever set to wax.
"Devil Got My Woman," which opens this collection, is a case in point: a snaking siren song that leads down to the root of loss and mortal dread (if that description sounds like an exaggeration, listen to the track). James's deft, fingerpicking is everywhere in evidence, especially on the uncharacteristically ebullient "I'm So Glad." The surface noise of these old 78s is a distraction, but even that can't dilute the unbelievable power of these performances.

Editorial Reviews
...Enigmatic and fascinating...
Mojo (04/01/2001)

5 Stars - Excellent - ...this haunting collection...has the power to catch you by the throat. Using his high, keening voice and refined modal guitar picking, James infuses `rags' and blues with an inner-directed melancholy that perfectly fits his lyrics on death, desolation, devilry and the Depression...
Down Beat (08/01/1995)

5 Stars - Excellent - ...this haunting collection...has the power to catch you by the throat. Using his high, keening voice and refined modal guitar picking, James infuses `rags' and blues with an inner-directed melancholy that perfectly fits his lyrics on death, desolation, devilry and the Depression...
Down Beat (08/01/1995)

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