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Artist: Skip James
Author: Skip James
Label: Paramount
Year: 1931
During the same session he cut 20-20 Blues and Devil Got My Woman (see there). Paramount gave him the choice: either a percentage on any record sold (if ever it was decided to release anything in the first place), or $40 cash. An easy choice one year into the Great Depression! One of the forgotten bluesmen rediscovered in '64 by John Fahey and Canned Heat's Henry Vestine.
Covers:
Deep Purple [on debut album Shades Of Deep Purple]
Dave MacKenzie [in medley with Steel Guitar Rag]
Beck [in film Soul Of A Man]
Royalties for the Cream cover financed Skip James' hospital expenses ('67) and funeral ('69). Ida Cox's I'm So Glad (for Paramount in '29) was another song.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)