I'd Rather Be the Devil Skip James and the Blues by Stephen Calt | 2.14 MB
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Title: I'd Rather Be the Devil
Author: Stephen Calt
Year: 2008

Description:
Skip James (1902–1969) was one of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen, and a creative and idiosyncratic blues musician. His 1931 performances of "Devil Got My Woman", "I'm So Glad" and "22-20 Blues" transcend the genre. I'd Rather Be The Devil is a biography of James — and one of the few accounts of the dangerous and disreputable life of a professional blues musician. Based largely on hundreds of hours of conversations with James himself, Stephen Calt paints a portrait of a man troubled by his own murderous inclinations, a man who achieved one moment of greatness in a life haunted by failure. And, in doing so, Calt offers insights into the nature of the blues, the world in which it thrived, and its fate when that world vanished.

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