From Bentonia, Miss., blues original Nehemiah "Skip" James was a difficult, haunted man who was torn—like many Southerners, black and white—between the Devil's music and God's word.

Jazz musician Skip James's bio, concert & touring information, albums, reviews, videos, ... He later became a minister, but returned to performing blues during the 1960s “blues revival.” The music of ...

The new documentary 'Two Trains Running' pairs the search for lost 1930s blues singers Son House and Skip James with the tragic Mississippi Burning murders. Dick Waterman.

Peter Guralnick also interviewed James and says the musician took his blues very seriously. "Skip James was just a very cerebral, inward-looking person," Guralnick says.

But the Blue Front, where legends such as Nehemiah “Skip” James and Jack Owens played in the 1950s and ’60s, was the most famous, the Grand Ole Opry of the exotic Bentonia sound.

Part of Martin Scorsese’s 2003 PBS series “The Blues,” this segment directed by Wim Wenders explores the careers of Delta blues artist Skip James, gospel blues musician Blind Willie Johnson ...

The transformation is complete. Dion DiMucci, once doo-wop king of the New York streets, is a get-down, for-real bluesman. Or don't you think an ex-junkie from the Bronx knows about the blues ...

Skip James is another early blues artist, known for playing the piano and guitar in what is known as the Bentonia style of blues, named after his hometown on the outskirts of the Mississippi Delta.

Casual listeners, most of whom don't normally delve deeply into the Delta blues, are almost always convinced, like so many blues "scholars," that Robert Johnson was the be-all and end-all when it ...

BORDAL: The 22-20s' lead singer and songwriter, Martin Trimble, says he grew up listening to a lot of the old-time American blues players, and the band takes its name from an old Skip James blues ...