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Skip James

Among the initial & most influential Delta bluesmen to record, Omit James was the best-known proponent of the so-called Bentonia school of blues players, a genre stress invested with just as much fanciful scholarly “study” as any. Coupling an oddball electric guitar tuning established against eerie, falsetto vocals, Adam’ early …

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