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Imagine if he could see the impact he'd had, and all od listening to his incredible music nearly 100 years on!

Skip the first minute.

One of the greats!

I love the clarity of this video. Skip James's picking style looks similar to Renaissance Lute technique here. One of my favourite tunes from one of the original great delta blues men.

German Socio Historical posturing. This remains Brillance!

Smooth as butter…

D minor tuning- impossible to play but Skip did and composed AND sang.

One of the best blues songs ever written

Neil Young is original and authentic afterall. How wrong can one fan be?

Amazing, time taken from the river

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I was born in 1965 and was into rock music late 70s 80s and I think I know where big rock groups got sound inspiration 😮🤔

Top.

Song title should read "Hard Time Killing Floor", despite the announcer.

Stunning guitar work & vocals Haunting

Kanye west (speaking German*) introduces Nas (playing guitar) .

thank you blind owl wilson for tracking down skip james and showing him he was loved.

Eat your soup!

If anyone knows a better piece of guitar ragtime on You Tube, please name it. This is the best I’ve seen and I’ve just sold my 40 year old vinyl collection that had several ragtime guitar LPs. Other examples of Ari are wonderful too, of course.

I like it, you nailed it

It is coming....a hard reset is inbound. I hope the best for our children....they will be on the frontline...while the old rich bastards send them to die.

Very important knowledge.....

Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (09 de junio de 1902 - 03 de octubre de 1969) fue cantante, guitarrista, pianista y compositor de blues norteamericano.

Came here though Oh Brother Where Art Thou and Chris King's haunting rendition of this song at the campfire-

Genius.

How amazing, a tractor driver. This is Skip mother fucking James. One of my favorite recordings ever.

I can remember this piece from the movie brother where art thou is the song Tommy was playing under the tree before he lit out.

What gives me the blues are the horrible commercials on UA-cam!

This man knows how to tell a story !!!!

Absolutely stunning.

Peace to all children of The Most High - meet y'all at the secret place

Fantastic that this was preserved for us to enjoy today!

It's obvious he worked or spent time near a pig or chicken slaughter house.

Thank you for this post

Thanks for posting. I had never heard of Mr. James .My guitar teacher told me a check him out . I see why after hearing that Thank you.

Came to him through Canned Heat. Bob Hite tried to sing like him. Not bad fir a white boy.

Looks like we don't really need another awestruck comment here but I can't help it. Skip James just blows me away. One of the great, great originals of the 20th century. This music gets inside the sorrow of the entire Black experience in America and it just stays there but it is not depressing. Haunting, disturbing, unmooring even but not depressing. It is art (and from what I have read of him he knew that). I am grateful that we have this! Amen.

This is utterly historic. I had a record called "The Great Blues Men" back in 1985. I highly recommend it if you can find it. Skip James is on it singing a song called "Cyprus Grove." Just hypnotic, melancholy, and absolutely authentic. This is real music, so different that the corporate crap we have today.

All rise.

Pure magic

classic footage of a brilliant musician! TY Ramblin' Bob and youtube!

Nice to watch

Damals waren die GEZ Gebühren noch was wert. Heute hat man schlechte Schauspieler und pseudo Drehbücher.

Can someone please edit the German talk out of this video. Nobody gives a shit and fast forwards over it. I mean it’s an entire minute long

Sadness is missing in the voice.

A haunting melody, soulfully rendered

Skip James was way ahead of his time.

One of the most bone chilling songs ever written. This performance is better than the studio version too.

Ole Slowhand covered a couple of Skips songs. Did not hold up well.

Fantastic songwriting!