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Music : The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James
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The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James by: Skip James |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0016351200921 Label: Yazoo Manufacturer: Yazoo Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Yazoo Release Date: September 15, 1994 Studio: Yazoo Sales Rank: 18837 MPN: 2009 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: With an unmistakable falsetto delivery, Skip James created some of history's eeriest blues records. His blues sounds dark and mysterious, using odd tunings, structures, and rhythms, and exploring gloomy lyrical themes. Unlike other bluesmen of the day, James's music was personal and bleak, played for his own emotional release and not for purposes of entertainment. "Devil Got My Woman," "Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues," "Hard Luck Child," and "Special Rider Blues" convey sorrow and misery like few others can. Uptempo numbers such as the classic "I'm So Glad" and "Drunken Spree," which resembles the hillbilly traditional "Late Last Night," showcase his forceful guitar picking while rags "Little Cow and Calf" and the jumpy "How Long 'Buck'" feature his unique piano work. --Marc Greilsamer Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - The most haunting music I knowThe 1931 recordings of Skip James are simply among the strangest and most chilling music in recorded history. I first heard some of them as a teenager in the 1980s, after I had already listened to James' younger contemporary Robert Johnson; Johnson's music is equally spooked in terms of lyrical content, but his music at any rate always has a solid rhythmic pulse. James' music was less celebrated (perhaps because, unlike Johnson, he had lived long enough to be rediscovered in the 1960s), but in retrospect it was far more scary. Less earthy and worldly than Johnson's, it seems to float in the air, an eerie keening sound emphasised by James' unorthodox approach to rhythm and blurry falsetto voice. (Johnson, by contrast, could sound positively ... Read More: Rating: - Real Gritty BluesIf you're looking for genuine heartful music, go with the early recordings. He's just not the same with the clean, crisp sound of a remastered CD. Blues is one of those types of music that sounds better with sand between its teeth. And really, if you have a record player, you're better off getting a record from him to play the music how it was supposed to be played. Rating: - Mp3s are not 250 kbpsI am dissappointed that the mp3s in this album were advertised as 250 kbps but they are not, they average 150 kbps. I am hesitant to buy mp3s from Amazon anymore. Althou the album is magnificient. Rating: - awesome!skip james is one of those true masters. there is so much to say about him, the way he sang, his funny tunings, the lyrics he wrote. he was an absolute genius. stay away from early recordings if you have a problem with lo-fi sound, but if you do you're cheating yourself. Amazing!!! Rating: - "I'd rather be dead and six feet in the ground..."Wow!!! This is history on CD!! One of the darkest, eeriest , blues recordings I've ever heard. Pop this in the player and you feel like you're out in a lonely bayou in the dead of night. "Devil Got My Woman Blues", "Cypress Grove Blues" are probably my favs on here. And while it is a shame that the sound quality of the recordings are subpar, after a few listens you don't even seem to notice. It gives it an earthy quality that if absence could probably take away the powerfullness of the songs. |
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