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Skip James, Son House, Little Walter, Hound Dog Taylor et al: American Folk Blues Festival, Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 4 November 1967

THE BLUES roll on, as we're often told, and last Thursday they rolled up to the shores of Hammersmith in the form of the 1967 ...

Skip James: Skip James Today! (Vanguard SVRLI9001.)

Review by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 28 September 1968

IN BLUES and other Negro folksong, as in jazz, judgments are much a matter of individual taste, though certain aspects of an artist's work are ...

Skip James

Obituary by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 18 October 1969

October 3, 1969 Dear Max, Skip James died this morning after a very long and painful illness. One of his finest memories was going to Europe in ...

Skip James: I'm So Glad

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 14 October 1978

SKIP JAMES scares me. ...

Invisible Jukebox: Diamanda Galás

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, November 1996

Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...

The Spooky Blues Of Skip James

Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, 20 October 2001

Mystical, otherworldly sounds from the '30s ...

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