Tag: Skip James
'REVIEW: Jimmy 'Duck' Holmes, 'It Is What It Is.' Blue Porch Records
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'Blogarrhea: A Trip Through the Delta Blues Via the Lens of Sax Man Noah Preminger
When Blind Willie Johnson recorded "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground" in 1927, he couldn't have known that 50 years later, in 1977, it would be launched into space with 26 other songs just in case any aliens wanted to know about our culture. Thirty-nine years after that, in 2016, 'Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground' is also the sound of a Connecticut sax man, Noah Preminger, getting real. -
'1032K in Lincoln Center-Commissioned Work 'Hard Time Killing Floor Suite': Skip James Tribute
The three-person jazz ensemble 1032K presents a Lincoln Center-commissioned work “Hard Time Killing Floor Suite,” which explores the legacy of Delta blues icon Skip James.