Skip James
The Haunting Minor-Key Ghost of the Delta
I sing the blues the Delta stole from the wind.
They call me Skip. I call myself a man who poured his soul into wire and wood. My father taught me the first notes, but the land taught me the rest — the ache of the soil, the cry of the lost. I played for juke joint shadows and church corners, not for the bright lights. My voice? That’s not me — that’s the wind through the cotton rows, singing what words won’t say.
What I'm Into: my 1931 Paramount records, crossroads at midnight, the hush after a storm, Sunday hymns in a back room, a glass of something strong after a long walk
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