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Skip James - Today - 180g LP

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Skip James - Today - 180g LP
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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Acoustic Sound Series -  180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

The albums in the Bluesville Series are pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings and feature all-analog (AAA) mastering by Grammy-nominated engineer Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios, plus a tip-on jacket and obi strip with notes written by Grammy-winning producer, writer and musician Scott Billington.

Clear, crisp modern recordings of the spooky, mysterious style of Blues Skip James developed early last century. His guitar playing is perfect. His high haunting voice floats and then holds and makes the hair on the back of your neck crawl. His piano playing is unpredictable yet concise. His unique style, which recorded earlier in his life (1930) sounded almost archaic (positively so), now sounds strangely modern due to the increased fidelity of the magnetic tape used for the recording. An unusual and original talent, Skip James was one of the best.

Skip James’s cool, plaintive, ghost-like, high-pitched wail produces soft chills starting with the opener, a tale about slaughterhouse work during the Great Depression. There are songs about temptation, poverty, hard drinking and all of the standard blues fare told from an authentic perspective. James was born in Mississippi in 1902 and grew up spending time in the fertile Delta where blues was born. When he hits the “you” in “you can understand” at the end of “Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues,” if the hair on your neck doesn’t stand up, you have a hairless neck.

"Musicians:
Skip James, guitar, piano, vocals
 
Selections:
1. Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
2. Crow Jane
3. Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues
4. Special Rider Blues
5. Drunken Spree
6. Cherryball
7. How Long Blues (w/Russ Savakus, bass)
8. All Night Long
9. Cypress Grove
10. Look Down the Road
11. My Gal
12. I'm So Glad

 

 

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