His Today album from is from '66 is pretty great imo, it has a really booming Hard Times Killing Floor Blues on there.
― calzino, Wednesday, 11 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
The Insect Trust's version of "Special Rider Blues" on their '68 album is choice, one of my favorite covers of a blues tune ever.― eddhurt, Wednesday, April 11, 2018 1:11 PM
― eddhurt, Wednesday, April 11, 2018 1:11 PM
― Three Hundred Pounds of Almond Joy (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 12 April 2020 18:43 (four years ago) link
Amen. My blogged comment in 2004: "People driftin', from door to door." On the soundtrackofWim Wenders's THE SOUL OF A MAN, Lucinda Williams drifts the line, but thenshe's slapping the rest of Skip James' "Hard Times Killing Floor Blues"flat onthe bar, like there's more where that came from. (She knows there better be.)...Turns out Skip James really DIDN'T miss (his falsetto's appropriatedghost of)"Crow Jane" 'til she was gone (how could he?). Now he's fascinatedbythis feeling, this windfall. And "you can't take her place, can't take her,"but "someday you got to die." Looking forward? He's not looking away.In "Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues," Skip (channeled by thealmost-as-elusive Garland Jeffreys) is admitted, because (he coaches staff), "you'sa good man, you's a po' man, we can understand." He gets better, and promisesto make his doctor "a wealthy man," luring me past Bible-searching BlindWillie, who finds "nothin' but a burnin' light." And so on (Wenders' doc was in Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues---A Musical Journey, well worth checking out:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blues_(film_series))Of course you can miss someone before they're gone, but (alibi) Skip can make your mind go skippin' in the vibe.
― dow, Sunday, 12 April 2020 19:49 (four years ago) link
That Insect Trust album is sick as hell
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Sunday, 12 April 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
have never heard insect trust before today, it’s great. never put it together that hawkwind’s “hurry on sundown” is a cover of the same s james tune. in fact the arrangements are so similar, i can’t help but wonder if dave brock nicked it from the IT
― budo jeru, Sunday, 12 April 2020 22:15 (four years ago) link
^^^^
Skip is one of the greatest
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 12 April 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
The Insect Trust (1968) is dope, but or and Hoboken Saturday Night(1970) is even betterhttps://img.discogs.com/G-CeHaHKCBSSsdxOzh4CP2oliaM=/fit-in/600x587/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2209852-1495553931-8171.mpo.jpg
― dow, Monday, 13 April 2020 01:15 (four years ago) link
Also, I always heard Al "Blind Owl" Wilson of Canned Heat as a Skip disciple, with that voice in there between a blues harp and a slide guitar (*sort of* like Neil Young without the warble)---there's a collection I still need to check, Blind Owl.
― dow, Monday, 13 April 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
wilson def made clear that his falsetto was an homage to skip
― budo jeru, Monday, 13 April 2020 01:27 (four years ago) link
I bought the Blind Owl collection on Mississippi Records and absolutely love it.https://www.discogs.com/Blind-Owl-Wilson-Blind-Owl-Wilson/release/9244952 Makes sense that his voice is a homage.Never heard of Insect Trust, but sounds cool on first listen, and pretty cool they got Bernard Purdie and Elvin Jones to play drums on their records.
― mizzell, Monday, 13 April 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link