Skip James

Nehemiah "Skip" James, a pioneer of the Delta-blues style in his 1931 recordings, was one of
the supreme rediscovered performers of the 1960s blues revival. If this lost nineteen-song
near-solo session from 1967 had been released around the time of his death two years
later, it would have been big news, if only because Cream had recently covered his "I'm So
Glad"; he also clearly influenced the revered Robert Johnson. James' eerie false... More >