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

I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues
ISBN-10
1556527462
ISBN-13
9781556527463
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
385
Language
English
Published
2008-04-01
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Author
Stephen Calt

Description

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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