Skip James - all night long

[sarmiento2008]

i'm not pressing the like button because there are currently 666 likes.

[coccxo]

@sarmiento2008 me too lol

[PeterandGabriel]

78 people do not know good music!

[zepkungfu]

only blues player i know that never played someone else's songs, wrote ALL his songs could say he is the most pure of all.

[awsell]

@zepkungfu Some of the lyrics in his songs are taken from older songs/hollers. ex: "Saddle up horse..saddle up my black mare."

[TheThroney]

@AdamCursedUsFirst its standard tuning just a full step down.. just tune your low E to drop D and then tune the rest of the strings to that like standard tuning.. that's what i did anyways.. granted this was a year ago n you probably know now

[arkee71]

absolutely other worldly

[patobrun]

good shots on what his fingers doin, lub dat shit ya.

[CoffinAvenue]

Haunting.

[olskooldannib030]

Damn! Skip James I Hate You Dead!!! R.I.P.

[kickalion]

open D ?

[pinoyblues69]

his guitar playing really got my attention!

[mortalclay9]

Brilliant! Pure genius!!!! Wish I could of seen him play live!

[Nyquistic]

Stumbled onto Skip's music via Chris Thomas King's excellent rendition of "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" in the film "Oh Brother How Art Thou" and realised I'd been listening to it, in one form or another, FOR MOST OF MY LIFE. The first time would have been when I flipped over a 45-prm single my brother had and discovered Cream doing "I'm So Glad". Thanks, Skip!

[juliancitizen]

damn, the man

[alexnas81]

the dislikers are drunks...they hit by accident the dislike button

[tattvam4]

First time listening to this guy. Blown away.

[Zyklopz9]

I have an album where Skip plays this song on the piano. Love his guitar playing.

[WolfeCoBen]

Four "One hump chumps" can't go - all night long!

[skoconnor8881]

HOW DARE YE DISLIKE THIS MASTER

[EdVidz]

After all these years, I discovered where Al Wilson and "Canned Heat" got their vocal style. Check out "Going Down to the Country", you'll hear Skip James.

[raveon09]

@EdVidz ya mean goin up the country?

[EdVidz]

@raveon09 Now you talkin'!

[lazur1]

@Ed:Skip's favor to Alan was paid for: Soon to be Canned Heat's Henry Vestine & John Fahey, "rediscovered" James, brought him out of retirement & to the public's attention, in '64, leading to appearances at folk fests & a Vanguard contract for the remaining years of his life. Fahey &/or Canned Heat members were also "hands-on" instrumental in the renewed careers of Bukka White, Son House, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, & Sunnyland Slim.

[chessgoon]

The demon with the angel's voice. RIP skip. may you find the peace in the hereafter that you never could on earth, and thank you for the music.

[LaneCoutell]

wonderful.

[MrManicTV]

it's hard not to lament the lack of glory and success Skip James (and many of his contemporaries) experienced during their lives, especially when they were actually churning out these tunes. We must all be thankful to the fellows in the 60s who sought out these troubadours and allowed them to share their music to an unknowing society, even if for a short amount time. Because now, almost a hundred years past their era, we can look them up on youtube and enjoy it.

[JosephMalicke]

@MrManicTV Yeah, except practically every black performer was exploited in the making of most records from the 20s to the 60s. It's more like society decided they loved the blues again. The blues continued to be exploited, but it was wanted by society again.

[busessuck1]

@JosephMalicke The problem with the country blues revival was that it was a fad... it wasn't met with the enthusiasm it deserved and really there was never a sense of people putting their own money on the line just for the sake of their cultural significance

Skip et al should've gotten a whole lot more out of it, having been abruptly told to jump on board in their twilight years, let alone likes of Lonnie Johnson, Ishman Bracey, Buddy Moss, Kokomo Arnold who were just criminally undervalued

[420BOYStv]

so this is where alan wilson got his style from i see now

[jrtpf]

i think you've got to live the blues to play it like that

[townesfan10]

@jrtpf - that and an ugodly amount of musical talent, yes.

[JosephMalicke]

Skip sounds good singing that opening line from Patton's Pony Blues.

[cocodgin1]

i got what the song & singer are all about ,, just when i was on Hash :-)

[BongRasta]

@cocodgin1 thats cus was nice hash XD

[cocodgin1]

@BongRasta,

Yes man it was a very strong hash i am still under stoned since i wrote this comment.

Thanks for z feedback Bong :-) .................

[HoodooDot]

Does anyone know where this footage is from? This and the video of crow jane..

[alteregoash]

"If it's all night long..."

[LaneCoutell]

WHAT A VOICE

[finorius30]

forerver



[lebleufleur]

1 dislike. motherfucker

[uardone]

@lebleufleur ahahahahahaha

[ATDemon55]

@lebleufleur you know its some fat metalhead who lives at home with his disapproving parents haha

[rekosen]

@lebleufleur probably a bieber fan, heh no offense.:)))

[zzy66613]

@lebleufleur he/she click the wrong button

[GabeCarren]

@lebleufleur you dont dislike this you just love it that much! Hater!

[lebleufleur]

@GabeCarren no sense at all?

[unknownwizdom]

@lebleufleur all the dislikes have no class, no cool, and no clue

[mb0627]

@lebleufleur

plus 3 otha muthafuckas now

[mb0627]

@lebleufleur

plus 3 otha muthafuckas now

fuck haters

[HerbalGoonWizard]

@lebleufleur its ok man, with music like this...he has to be kidding



[BigChiefFan]

Beautiful music. Never stop doing what you belive in life.Tap into a higher power.

[willwelsh816]

it looks like post-its against a piece of cardboard. why couldnt they just film him on a porch?

[gootenslog]

Martin Scorsese did a horrible blues retropsective.....what was needed was more a documentary along the lines of Ken Burns Jazz. Scorsese's idea of different directors making different films was too disjointed and did not work. A Chronological treatment was needed.

[OscarCommie]

@gootenslog Well Scorsese's doc is not in my mind ideal, it is still pretty fair, very enjoyable, and a genuine labour of love.

[Farmaz]

@uardone

is that the blind willie johnson film?......i seen a 1 min clip of the film where it was on about dark was the night..... going into space & it didnt look that bad, how terrible is the film then?......

also have you seen the robert johnson one done in the same series?......

its a shame they didnt do a sonhouse one imo

[MoteyJoe]

Gad... So damn cool.

[alteregoash]

@dontreadimpished

DADFAD is what i know... but damn this hard to tab

[morse3388]

this man tears my soul apart. men like him are the reason i listen to music.

[newberry58]

@uardone

what, Wim Wenders movie, The Soul of a Man .. it was awesome work .. each to his own I guess ??

[ablopavo2006]

najpięknejsza chyba piosenka na świecie

[jamo387]

Listen to White Summer/ Black Mountain Side by Jimmy Page. Sounds like similar tuning.

[aerosolchef]

Also Tinyelvis. If you like the uniqueness of Skip James' voice, take a listen to Mississippi John Hurt. You're bound to like his work :o)

[aerosolchef]

What Villan606 said. I strongly disagree with tinyelvs's statement.

Leadbelly doesn't sound anything remotely similar to Robert Johnson.. or anyone for that matter. First of all he was a master of the 12string, which most musicians at that time tended to stray away from and still do today.

Enough of the rant. I do understand where you are coming from, but i think you chose the wrong people to compare with lol.

[villan606]

no variety between leadbelly, johnson and house etc... i must strongly disagree.

[newberry58]

I now know who Alan "blind Owl" Wilson got his vocal style from ..

[Paulsworks]

@newberry58 You are dead on right.

[newberry58]

@Paulsworks

I love Canned Heat .. they know great blues and were partly responsible for reviving it tin the late 60's .. Skip James is awesome !!

[morse3388]

he really makes his own timing in his songs but he manages to keep the same rhythm.

wish i could play half as well

[kuhlenbein]

clear and simple..nice..

but the same if i listen to son house- i understand only the half ;-))

but so what..

so,the voice is more an instrumental part of the music..

[furryfan1979]

skip makes me cry. no, really.

[TnTKid54]

I'm pretty sure is not in dafdad here but tuned 1 step down , as he did with crow jane

[lostintheblues]

open Eminor tuning, same as crow jane

[tinyelvis10]

I'm a fan of delta blues generally, but it's kind of a uniform style - not a ton of variety amongst the great players, like Ledbelly, Johnson, Son House, etc. They're all great, but sound a lot like each other. James is certainly an exception, however. There's something really unique and inventive about his guitar playing. I love it.

[luckyhorsecinema]

Yeah i agree there is something distinctly differrent about the way he plays that's pretty interesting. Somethings i've heard him do have left me wondering what the hell just happened, as if he's walked right out of the song only to rejoin it slightlly afterwards haha. I'm only just beginning to get interested in the blues but so far he's one of my  favourite players.

[Harvesterofmetal]

As a HUGE fan of Delta Blues too, couldn't have said it better ;) !

[THEBIGKOSTRINSKY]

@tinyelvis10 ....i agree with you that skip is extremely inventive...but leadbelly and son house sound NOTHING like eachother one played a twelve string one played a dobro with a slide...and their songs and styles were completely different!!! thats like saying Albert King sounds just like John Lee Hooker!!!they all sounded different ...you just have to fucking listen dude!!!

[johnnyboybledsoe12]

he uses dadfad tuning

[AdamCursedUsFirst]

I'm having the hardest time figuring out open d tuning. All the tutorials on here suck, any suggestions?

[pmf598]

these the tunes bro , suits my life , dunno what your life is like . . . :)

[jukeboybob]

"Soul of A Man" wasn't a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it was by far the best of the Scorsese series...You couldn't beat the subject material though!!

[BuckMarley612]

I also think Keith Brown did a great job of portraying Skip James in "Soul of a Man". Just my opinion though.

[monkeywrench890]

I agree there were massive inaccuracies I had been waiting for the boxset to drop in price when it did i bought it thinking from all the rave reviews it must be great it wasn't.

Check out devil got my woman dvd it has skip james howlin wolf and a very drunk son house

[BuckMarley612]

Devil Got My Woman is a killer dvd.

[plasticaholic]

Are there any good movies or documentarys about the history of blues and the gr8 ones...

[BuckMarley612]

I liked it and most people I know liked it. Mater of opinion.

[uardone]

@BuckMarley612  sure...but why use actors? Have you seen feels like going home or piano blues from the blues series? those were good!!!

[pigfart]

open D

[MrMudneck]

i think this may be his other open g tuning song.

[Asenmacht]

This is very deeply I think.

[adubon]

I wish Charley Patton and Robert Johnson lived long enough to be recorded clearly like this, even though it adds to their mystique.

[MrHansjensen]

Insane..it don't get better

[ben13rown]

thats fuckin sick

[rotsrots123]

great guitar playing obviously, but what a voice! :-)

[masajhn]

@rotsrots123 Are you fucking shitting

[rotsrots123]

@masajhn er... what do you mean?

[kkblandford]

does anyone know where this recording is from?

ive seen 2 on youtube

im hoping he did more..

thanks

[SirFrancisBurton]

i've seen it in one of the scorcese doc on blues music, dont remember which one sorry

[TheBluesMann]

Think it was on "the soul of a man" by Wim Wenders (from Scorsese's "the blues"-collection)

[BuckMarley612]

Yes, the sections covering Skip, Son and JB Lenoir were on "Soul of a Man"

[lionking6199zj]

Answer to your question; DVD of The American Folk Blues Festival - Volume Three.

Do yourself a favor and buy all DVD's from this 1960's era American Folk Blues Festival European Tour... Volume's One, Two, and Three.

You will not be disappointed!

[icecreamlove45s]

American Folk & Blues Fest, filmed in Germany during the 60s. Netflix has them.

[gdrinon]

I know he used D minor tuning a lot, but here it seems he's hitting an open bass string on the 4 chord, which would be a G. Anyone know if he used a different type of tuning here?

[oneluckysperm]

He needed the action on that guitar lowered. Guess it's all part of his sound, though.

Thanks for upping!

[bluegitsy]

one of my favorite songs