Heroes Of Blues

Product Details

Artist : Skip James
Format : Best of
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0826663024524
Label : Shout!
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2004-01-26
UPC : 826663024524

ASIN : B0000C3I7K

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. 22-20 Blues
2. Little Cow Little Calf Is Gonna Die
3. Special Rider Blues
4. Vicksburg Blues
5. How Long Blues
6. Devil Got My Woman
7. Sick Bed Blues
8. I Don't Want A Woman To Stay Up All Night Long
9. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
10. Skip's Worried Blues
11. Illinois Blues
12. Cypress Grove Blues
13. Cherry Ball Blues
14. Crow Jane
15. Everybody's Leaving Here
16. I'm So Glad

Customer Reviews

Nice overview of Skip James' rediscovery period (2003-11-30)

Shout Factory continues its excellent "Heroes of the Blues" series with one of the most haunting voices in music - that of Bentonia, Mississippi's Skip James. The collection concentrates mainly on his reimergence in the mid-1960s, with the exception of the two opening tracks taken from his 1931 Paramount recording session. The bulk of the release is made up of recordings James made for Biograph in 1964, which were recorded just shortly after his rediscovery earlier that year. Equally impressive and distinctive on piano as he was on guitar, the set also highlights his unique piano style as demonstrated on "22-20 Blues" and "How Long Blues." Although not listed, those looking for a recording of his most popular piece, "The Devil Got My Woman," can find a stirring six-minute 1964 version on track 6, listed mistakenly as "How Long Blues," (which actually appears as track 5 but titled "61 Highway.") With an interest in Skip James at an all-time high thanks in part to James' high-profile inclusion in the Martin Scorsese PBS blues series, and to a lesser extent, the strong role his music played in the 2001 film "Ghost World," this set happily brings some of his fine postwar recordings to a whole new generation just discovering his genius.

error on the printed playlist on the back cover (2003-11-08)

Beautifully cleaned up tracks. On the copy I got the back cover doesn't list "Devil Got My Woman" . Instead a different track 5 called "61 Highway". Luckly the actual cd does have the playlist listed here with "Devil got My woman".

Superb overview of Skip's work (2003-09-30)

This CD is a fantastic overview of the work of Skip James, covering both his guitar work and his equally fine piano blues. It focuses on his 1960s comeback, after years of neglect. After he played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, he rerecorded many of his classics for a variety of folk and blues labels, and it is from these pristine-sounding sessions that this CD is compiles. Not only are the sound and performances first-rate, but the liner notes are detailed and informative. This is an excellent entry point to Skip's career for neophytes, and for die-hard blues fans it is a wonderful survey of his post-discovery period.

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