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This is as distilled and as pure as blues can get. Skip James’ magical and spooky finger-picking style and his high falsetto voice made for something bizarre, a strangeness and a beauty and a completely unique sound. The story goes that Devil Got My Woman was the inspiration for Robert Johnson’s Hellhound On My Trail which was recorded just a few years later. Skip James was from Bentonia, Mississippi, away from the Delta, where they did things differently with the guitar, less bottleneck slide and more finger picking.

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TALKIN' GUITAR BLUES - Henry Towsend

Henry Townsend's name doesn't ring a bell with too many people but, as you can hear for yourself, he could dive head first into a wild blues riff - and pull it off. He had a great sound. The other Henry Townsend I know is the Henry Townsend in Edward P. Jones' masterpiece of a novel, The Known World. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2004, but that doesn't begin to describe what a powerful and great book it is.

TRIXIE SMITH (1895-1943)

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MY DADDY ROCKS ME - Trixie Smith

Sexy and sassy - blues with trumpet, clarinet, a snare drum and the sure voice of Trixie Smith - this was the first combination of "rock" and "roll" in popular music, recorded in 1922. And no doubt, it lives up to its special status.

MEMPHIS MINNIE (1897-1973) AND KANSAS JOE MCCOY (1905-1950)

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MY WASH WOMAN'S GONE - Kansas Joe and Memphis Minnie

MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL (1904-1972)

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GOING DOWN THE RIVER- Mississippi Fred McDowell

ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS (1914-1980)

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Motherless Children Have A Hard Time - Robert Pete Williams

There are many versions of this song, Son House to the White Stripes, but none as intense and as devastating as Robert Pete Williams version. Recorded at Angola Penitentiary while in for life for murder, this here is this voice of pain and a mind-bending, cosmic blues guitar and it's nearly otherworldly. This recordings helped get attention beyond the prison to his musical abilities, and after the intervention of others and putting pressure on the parole board, he was pardon, released and spent the rest of his life recording and playing music.

CHARLEY PATTON (b. bet.1887 & 1891 and d. April 28, 1934)

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A SPOONFUL BLUES - Charley Patton

This song ranks as one of the greats and it comes from the undisputed Daddy of the Delta Blues. It was the inspiration for Willie Dixon's, Spoonful, and was re-energized and, as the Chambers Brothers might say, psychedelicized by Cream in the 60's, being introduced to a whole new generation and audience. I don't know a better song of addiction - the desperation, the price, the consequences - but it's the music, Patton's course, raspy voice and his bottleneck-style guitar that will make your head spin, sounding just as modern as it does old-time.

" (spoken: I'm about to go to jail about this spoonful) In all a spoon', 'bout that spoon' The women goin' crazy, every day in their life 'bout a... It's all I want, in this creation is a... I go home (spoken: wanna fight!) 'bout a... Doctor's dyin' (way in Hot Springs !) just 'bout a... These women goin' crazy every day in their life 'bout a... (click on image for larger version) Would you kill a man dead? (spoken: yes, I will!) just 'bout a... Oh babe, I'm a fool about my... (spoken: Don't take me long!) to get my... Hey baby, you know I need my... It's mens on Parchman (done lifetime) just 'bout a... Hey baby, (spoken: you know I ain't long) 'bout my... It's all I want (spoken: honey, in this creation) is a... I go to bed, get up and wanna fight 'bout a... (spoken: Look-y here, baby, would you slap me? Yes I will!) just 'bout a... Hey baby, (spoken: you know I'm a fool a-) 'bout my... Would you kill a man? (spoken: Yes I would, you know I'd kill him) just 'bout a... Most every man (spoken: that you see is) fool 'bout his... (spoken: You know baby, I need) that ol'... Hey baby, (spoken: I wanna hit the judge 'bout a) 'bout a... (spoken: Baby, you gonna quit me? Yeah honey!) just 'bout a... It's all I want, baby, this creation is a... (spoken: look-y here, baby, I'm leavin' town!) just 'bout a... Hey baby, (spoken: you know I need) that ol'... (spoken: Don't make me mad, baby!) 'cause I want my... Hey baby, I'm a fool 'bout that... (spoken: Look-y here, honey!) I need that... Most every man leaves without a... Sundays' mean (spoken: I know they are) 'bout a... Hey baby, (spoken: I'm sneakin' around here) and ain't got me no... Oh, that spoon', hey baby, you know I need my... "

BLIND WILLIE McTELL, born William Samuel McTier (1898-1959)

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TALKING TO MYSELF - Blind Willie McTell

There's a lot to love about Blind Willie McTell. A master of technique on the 12-string, he'd bang out some hip rhythms and blues rags, and in the Piedmont, or East Coast style, he could pick like a mother. Add to all that a great tenor voice, he was a major force, as well as prolific, recording around 120 sides. His song, Statesboro Blues has been recorded many times by modern bands, the having become a signature tune of the Allman Brothers. Bob Dylan has tipped his hat to Blind Willie on several occasion, the first being Highway 61 Revisited, referring to Blind Willie by one of his stage names, Georgia Sam, as in "Georgia Sam he had a bloody nose". I suppose the greatest honor Dylan could bestow would be with an eponymous title, "Blind Willie McTell," which he recorded in 1983, and the claim, "Nobody can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell."

ROBERT PETWAY

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Recorded by everyone from Skip James to Jimi Hendrix, Catfish Blues dates back to the early 30's, when it was a popular song in Mississippi juke joints. This 1941 Robert Petway version is the first recorded version of the song. Muddy Waters 'borrowed' much of the music and lyrics for his first single on Chess Records, Rollin' Stone, and recorded in 1947.

Petway was from the Bentonia area in Mississippi, outside the Delta, where a related but different blues style developed that relied more on finger-picking and less on the bottleneck/slide guitar style popular with the Delta guitar players. Petway was born around 1908, recorded only sixteen songs, and later disappeared without a trace, leaving no recorded date or cause of his death.

BLIND BOY FULLER, born Fulton Allen (1907-1941)

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