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Skip James
With his head voice, his fragile appearance and his irregular guitar playing, an
anthology of broken arpeggios, "Skip" James appears as one of the strangest
stylists of the Delta blues. His dark, melancholy personality is reflected in
such moving compositions as "Hard Times Killing Floor Blues", the best blues
about the Depression of 1929. After a first attempt at a professional career in
the '30s, artistically remarkable but not financially rewarding, "Skip" James
pursued other trades until his rediscovery in 1964.
Despite the cancer eating away at him, he made striking appearan...
