Blues from the Delta

by Skip James

Blues from the Delta cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1 August 1998
  • Label: Vanguard
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:15:42
  • Community rating: 4.25/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Compiled by Tom Vickers with photography by David Gahr, 'Blues from the Delta' gathers twenty tracks running over seventy five minutes from Skip James's revival albums 'Today!' and 'Devil Got My Woman'. It adds two previously unreleased performances, 'She's All the World to Me' and 'Everybody Leaving Here', alongside rediscovery era versions of 'Devil Got My Woman', 'Hard Time Killin' Floor Blues' and 'Cypress Grove Blues'.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, bluesy, falsetto, traditional, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. I'm So Glad (1:56)
  2. Little Cow, Little Calf Blues (3:23)
  3. Devil Got My Woman (5:14)
  4. 22-20 Blues (3:51)
  5. Special Rider Blues (5:09)
  6. Mistreating Child Blues (3:58)
  7. Sick Bed Blues (4:08)
  8. Catfish Blues (4:37)
  9. Lorenzo Blues (4:19)
  10. Careless Love (4:01)
  11. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues (3:23)
  12. Crow Jane (2:58)
  13. Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues (4:11)
  14. How Long Blues (2:56)
  15. Cherry Ball Blues (4:27)
  16. Cypress Grove (4:20)
  17. Look Down The Road (3:16)
  18. She's All The World To Me (3:01)
  19. Everybody Leaving Here (2:40)
  20. Good Road Camp Blues (3:47)

Credits

  • Skip James - primary artist, voice, guitar, piano
  • Tom Vickers - producer

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