Sold Date: August 11, 2021
Start Date: July 30, 2021
Final Price: $80.00 (USD)
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***************ABOUT MY STORE AND MY COLLECTION*******************************
DEAR ROOTS MUSIC COLLECTORS.  I AM IN THE PROCESS OF LISTING MY VERY LARGE COLLECTION OF EARLY BLUES, FOLK, ETHNIC FOLK, AND TRADITIONAL ROOTS MUSIC.  THIS COLLECTION CONSISTS OF SEVERAL THOUSAND PIECES.  I WILL BE LISTING: 
 *78 RPM RECORDS OF PRE-WAR BLUES, TRADITIONAL UZBEKISTAN FOLK, OTTOMAN AND GREEK AND MORE ! 
 *VINYL FROM THE YAZOO, FOLKWAYS, OCORA LABELS AND MUCH MORE. 
*OBSCURE ETHNIC AND FOLK RECORDINGS ON CASSETTE AND CD 
 *BOOKS ON TOPICS RELATED TO THE BLUES AND TRADITIONAL FOLK CULTURES AND HISTORY AROUND THE WORLD.  
*THERE WILL ALSO BE A FEW RARE JAZZ RECORDS ALONG WITH THIS COLLECTION, HOWEVER THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY IS TRADITIONAL MUSIC.  
THIS COLLECTION HAS NO KITSCH COMMERCIAL RECORDINGS.  THIS IS MUSIC OF CULTURAL SIGNIFICANTS,  DOCUMENTS OF THE FAMILY OF MAN, THEIR DANCES, CUSTOMS, AND ABOVE ALL MUSIC.  I WILL BE ADDING ITEMS PERIODICALLY OVER THE NEXT YEARS SO KEEP CHECKING IN.  I TRAVEL OFTEN SO MY EBAY STORE WILL BE CLOSED PERIODICALLY FOR THE TIMES I AM ABROAD AND REOPENED WHEN I AM BACK IN TOWN.   

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Skip James Skip James
Real Name Skip James Profile Blues and gospel singer and songwriter, accomplished on guitar and piano. Known for his otherworldly voice, haunting guitar playing and falsetto singing, James contributed to some of the greatest delta blues sides ever recorded. 
Born: June 21, 1902, in Yazoo City, Mississippi.  Died: October 3, 1969, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Cancer) 
Raised on the Woodbine plantation just outside Betonia, Mississippi, James was drawn to music from an early age. As a child he was inspired to be a musician after he heard Henry Stuckey and Rich Griffin play a Saturday night dance party. He taught himself piano after watching a rural pianist, and developed his guitar style after Stuckey showed him how to tune his guitar to an open E minor chord. 
In 1927, Okeh Records approached him about making some records, but James refused. James was finally persuaded to see H.C. Spier in February of 1931, a master talent scout who had discovered most of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen of the 1920s and early 1930s. James played a little bit of "Devil Got My Woman," and Spier was convinced. The next day he presented the singer with a contract and a train ticket to Grafton, Wisconsin, where Paramount Records had a studio. James apparently recorded 18 tunes, though he would later remember performing 26 songs. 
Not long after his recording session, James met his father again for the first time since his childhood. The senior James was a Baptist minister, and asked Skip to go to Dallas to attend his divinity school and study for the ministry. James accepted the invitation. The most serious implication of his new-found religion was relinquishing the blues, which was considered the Devil's music. H.C. Spier again approached James in 1932 about recording for Victor Records, but James refused. 
In 1948 James quit a job with a mining company in Birmingham and returned to Betonia, planning to resume his blues career, but the African American population in Mississippi was dwindling and tastes in blues had changed, as well. He was only able to play an occasional party in town, and eventually vanished. Biographer Stephen Calt speculated that James' nickname may have had its roots in his criminal activities as he claimed that James often had to "skip" town in a hurry. 
It was not until 1964 that blues enthusiasts Bill Barth, John Fahey, and Henry Vestine located James in Tunica, Arkansas, where he lay in a hospital suffering from cancer. Finally coaxed back to performing, his first public appearance was the Newport Folk Festival that year. James frequently refused offers to be recorded and embraced his rediscovery in the 1960s only halfheartedly. 
In constant pain from cancer, James was unable to record at first, despite interest from various record companies. In July of 1965, he received $200 for a session for Melodeon, which later that year resulted in his first album Greatest Of The Delta Blues Singers. He would later record two LPs for Vanguard, Skip James Today! and Devil Got My Woman. 
During the last four years of his life he occasionally played gigs at coffeehouses up and down the northeast coast. But his unrelentingly depressing music made the clubs loathe to book him, and his records were not particularly successful. 
Living in Philadelphia with his third wife, James was chronically broke during his last years, until the group Cream (2) recorded "I'm So Glad" and included James' songwriter's credit. 
He was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 1992. Search Search for variations of Skip James  – Skip James Today! Label: Vanguard – VSD 79219 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress Country: US Released: 1968 Genre: Blues Style: Country Blues, Acoustic, Delta Blues, Piano Blues Tracklist Hide Credits A1Hard Times Killing Floor Blues3:21 A2Crow Jane2:57 A3Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues4:10 A4Special Rider Blues5:08 A5Drunken Spree2:47 A6Cherryball4:24 B1How Long Bass – Russ Savakus Written-By – Leroy Carr Bass – Russ Savakus Written-By – Leroy Carr 2:55 B2All Night Long5:00 B3Cypress Grove4:18 B4Look Down The Road3:14 B5My Gal6:05 B6I'm So Glad1:54 Companies, etc. Copyright © – Vanguard Recording Society, Inc. Published By – Wynwood Music Published By – Leeds Music Published By – Olwen Music Mastered At – Customatrix Credits Sleeve Notes – Bruce Jackson (3) Vocals, Guitar, Piano – Skip James Written-By – Skip James (tracks: A1 to A6, B2 to B6) Notes 1968 gold label repress of 1966 orange label original.
Matrices indicate a Columbia Records pressing, no indication of which plant. 
Skip James - Skip James Today! has the same matrices but a later label design.

********************CONDITION OF ITEM FOR SALE****************************************
VINYL:  VG TO VG+
COVER:  VG+
CENTER LABELS:  NM 
***********************COMBINED SHIPPING INFORMATION******************************
FOR INSIDE THE USA:
I SHIP UP TO 5 LP RECORDS FOR $4.00.  EACH ADDITIONAL RECORD AFTER 5 RECORDS COST 35 CENTS.   
FOR OUTSIDE THE USA:
I SHIP ONE RECORD FOR $22.50.  
TWO RECORDS OR DOUBLE LP'S FOR $33.00 
FOR EACH ADDITIONAL DISC AFTER 2 IS ANOTHER $3.00 FOR SHIPPING.  (EXAMPLE GIVEN BELOW) 
SHIPPING 3 RECORDS OUTSIDE THE USA IS: $36.00
SHIPPING 4 RECORDS OUTSIDE THE USA IS: $39.00
SHIPPING 5 RECORDS OUTSIDE THE USA IS: $42.00
ETC. 
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