Skip James

Blues 

Bluesville Records Has Been Relaunched

June 11, 2024June 18, 2024 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments 2024, Albert King, Blind Gary Davis, Bluesville, Bluesville Records, Burning Hell, Concord Music Group, Craft Recordings, Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Skip James, Today

Classic titles by John Lee Hooker and Skip James among the first to be reissued on the long dormant imprint

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Folk Psychedelics Rock 

May You Never: John Martyn’s Solid Air Turns 50

February 26, 2023February 26, 2023 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1973, 50th anniversary, Island Records, John Martyn, Skip James, Solid Air

The Scottish troubadour fused funk, jazz and more into his tender, trippy psych-folk stew

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Records 

Record Store Day Black Friday’s “Dirty Dozen”

November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 Rev. Keith A. Gordon 0 Comments 2022, Augustus Pablo, Black Friday, Captain Beefheart, Etta James, Jim Carroll, Jimi Hendrix, Overwhelming Colorfast, Record Store Day, Skip James, The Gun Club, The Jim Carroll Band

What’s hot, rare and ready to pick up this season

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Blues 

Bobby Rush: Back to the Raw Roots of The Blues

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments 2020, Black Lives Matter, Bobby Rush, Chitlin Circuit, Howin’ Wolf, Mississippi, Muddy Waters, Rawer Than Raw, Skip James

At 86, the blues great pays homage to the Mississippi masters who guide his path

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Roots 

Hard Times Ain’t Nothin’ New

May 15, 2020May 16, 2020 j. poet 0 Comments Alan Lomax, Eastern Kentucky., Going Away, italy Haiti, Jelly Roll Morton, John Lomax, Lead Belly and Muddy Waters, Sid Hemphill & Lucius Smith, Skip James, Won't Be Long, Woody Guthrie

The Alan Lomax Archives releases an album of songs to lift spirits in troubling times

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