The Evil Devil Blues

devil got my woman...skippp

just like it

listen to his song lead pencil blues its really good and is faster and his singing is different and the intro has cool solos

great song

i never heard this artist before. he does a grand job of covering skips song. is there more of his work?

yeah he has three document volumes released (which is around 75 songs), though don't expect them to sound alot like this as he mostly uses a backing band this and one or two other songs are some nice little exceptions. From what i've heard Johnnie Temple was a music student of Skip James who achieved minor - moderate success in the late 30's

don't forget skips resurgence in the 60's. cream even covered i'm so glad which i understand gave him the first real money in his life. seems he was a huge hit at newport and other venues.records reissued in the sixties sold well. skip is one of the icons of the blues world imho and the chief proponent of the bentonia school of blues.i adore him and his haunting, almost spooky quality. johnnie temple has captured some of his sound here.

Was thinkin Johnnie Temple really as far as mid - late 30's success though you are right about Skip James.. who more or less was the Bentonia school of blues.

it's hard to say, as Henry Stuckey was never recorded. maybe he started the whole Bentonia sound.

what about Jack Owens? I can't remember if he learned from Skip James or not.

saw Skip James in about '63 at the Wash. DC Folk Life Festival. One night was all blues, Mance Lipscomb, Muddy, Skip and others.