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I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues by Stephen Calt

I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues Stephen Calt ebook
ISBN: 9781556527463
Page: 400
Format: pdf
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated

Devil Got My Woman by Skip James. Jul 3, 2008 - Skip James has often been called one of the exponents of the Bentonia School of blues playing, which was later carried on by guitarist and singer Jack Owens. How messed up does a woman have to be for the man in her life to rather be the devil than be with her? The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. Etta James, who died last year, is a surprisingly neglected singer. It may be sacrilege to say so, but in my view she possesses a voice as glorious as Aretha Franklin's. Aug 13, 2013 - Skip's style is 100 percent his own. May 9, 2014 - I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues. His voice is higher and more lonesome than a Bill Monroe nightmare, making lines like “I'd rather be the devil than be that woman's man” tremble down your ear canal with an eerie chill. I'd rather be the devil, to be that woman man. May 10, 2010 - He questions why God would put such a woman on the earth and begs The Devil to please fix the mistake God made and rid the world of her evil in this high energy rock-a-billy classic. Apr 12, 2011 - I wouldn't recommend getting into a discussion about the blues Steven Calt, author of I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues (1994, 2008), if you run into him in a bar. Jan 27, 2013 - Etta James, I'd rather go blind. Dec 28, 2005 - As Stephen Calt emphasizes in I'd Rather Be The Devil, James' music deviated from both the formal standards of blues and the idiosyncratic style of his native state in several ways. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1994.