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

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

Paperback

MusiciansBlues & Soul

Publisher Price: $22.99

ISBN10: 1556527462
ISBN13: 9781556527463
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.48
Language: English
Skip James (1902-1969) was perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. Drawing on hundreds of hours of conversations with James himself, Stephen Calt here paints a dark and unforgettable portrait of a man untroubled by his own murderous inclinations, a man who achieved one moment of transcendent greatness in a life haunted by failure. And in doing so, Calt offers new insights into the nature of the blues, the world in which it thrived, and its fate when that world vanished.

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