Skip James sings "Crow Jane"

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  • @ClintT13
    @ClintT13 11 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    I heard three teenagers cover this song about a year ago and was blown away. Good to know there are still a few young kids digging up the good stuff.

    • @ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec
      @ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ec 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I listened to this stuff as a teen

    • @drinkingmuddywater
      @drinkingmuddywater 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ecsame here

    • @MichaelStefano-k3b
      @MichaelStefano-k3b 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ExcitedAnacondaSnake-hg8ecme too. Now my band covers delta blues

    • @brandonjosephmarcum
      @brandonjosephmarcum 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yeah right. For five dollars I could tell you where you got those shoes too. You can't find anybody who covers anything good no more.

    • @jeremymaez5311
      @jeremymaez5311 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​​@@brandonjosephmarcumyou're too cynical and making too many assumptions about a performance you haven't heard, your head is probably so far up your ass you can't even enjoy the music in this video anymore as much as you should. Just enjoy the music and don't concern yourself with shitting on a performance you haven't heard, it's a waste of time and energy. Your attitude will lead to your downfall, and people will see through it and stop valuing your opinion.

  • @gitaneVYS491R
    @gitaneVYS491R 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Wish I could give this a "like" each time I listen.

    • @lithiumfore7233
      @lithiumfore7233 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I gave it 5 stars back in 2007

  • @livingstranger
    @livingstranger 8 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    The look on his eyes at the end of the song, he feels his music...wow

    • @johnnywade8998
      @johnnywade8998 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      like he was in a trance...lol

    • @Stanlayy-em4fk
      @Stanlayy-em4fk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think at this point he'd been battling cancer for years.

    • @thatpickingguy
      @thatpickingguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe he didn't want to look at the camera sitting 2 inches from his face?

    • @citygasbatteryriot964
      @citygasbatteryriot964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've only seen that look in the eyes of Irish singers, like Thomas McCarthy, after emerging from a song. They are on a deep journey, and they invite us to join them on it, rocky as it may be.

    • @BrianCarnevaleB26
      @BrianCarnevaleB26 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the story has meaning to him.

  • @neilbuchan5088
    @neilbuchan5088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    This is my favourite Skip James Track. Contrary to the idiots defaming him in other comments here, his father was the bootlegger. He entered a music competition in 1931 in which he played several songs in different blues styles. He was offered a cash prize or royalties for his songs. He chose the latter. As the great depression sunk in he never received a cent.
    Skip disappeared for 30 years. There was nothing. Then he was discovered in a hospital by some blues enthusiasts. He was visiting 'kin'. They arranged to have him appear at the Newport Folk Festival where he was amazing and can be seen on film.
    He died in 1969 and is revered by so many including Bonnie Rait.

    • @joshuaford2831
      @joshuaford2831 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I have to say man, as a guy that is an idiot but appreciates people like you smart guys who have a passion for history, I love your desire to keep these moments in history alive, remember listening to one of his live performances of "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" and it was clear he was an intelligent man born in the wrong era, would imagine he was smart enough to appreciate royalties over a lump sum in that day and age, bad luck hit him in every aspect of his life. poor bloke.

    • @CarlosPEnis
      @CarlosPEnis 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Even if he was, who cares. Half of my county were bootleggers back in the 30s lol. It's how you made money when there was no other way

    • @jobdylan5782
      @jobdylan5782 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@CarlosPEnis i assume the accusation is that he was astroturfed along with most of the 60's blues revival, for political reasons.

  • @jesusbrunomontesbugarin8222
    @jesusbrunomontesbugarin8222 6 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    That look at the end of the video 😢, you know that man passed through a lot of stuff

    • @Kefacrow
      @Kefacrow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Exactly. After the build of the performance id finished and you get that look... It is a human who has seen/done horrific things.

    • @matthewstokes1608
      @matthewstokes1608 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      No man is beyond repentance and redemption - we don't know the man's mind... There is something Old Testament going on in this song... A man faces judgement - that look at the end is not celebratory or proud or evil... That's a look of repentance and self reckoning... What a ballad. God Bless the man - and maybe old 'Crow Jane' got a strange justice... Stuff happens in this fallen world.

  • @funkality
    @funkality 7 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    I've always found the Delta blues to be so powerful. It truly does move your soul.

    • @NabiscoOfficial
      @NabiscoOfficial 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Skip wasn't Delta. He was from Bentonia.

  • @JasonAlvarado46
    @JasonAlvarado46 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    God I'm so glad youtube exists... It would be much harder to discover great music like this if it didn't.

  • @maxten
    @maxten 9 ปีที่แล้ว +190

    his style is quite different from the other blues artists. Lots of picking like folk.

    • @KirtianM
      @KirtianM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Skip dedicated his life to the church. He wrote many religious songs before becoming a pastor. You can feel it in his distinguished style he was humble and not dedicated to becoming rich and famous and was a pious man.

    • @jonw6921
      @jonw6921 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      He often plays with an open d minor tuning which sets a unique tone. His rhythm is hypnotic too. Chills.

    • @davidquinn5430
      @davidquinn5430 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bentonia is style. th-cam.com/video/6EyI9hKdJbM/w-d-xo.html&feature=share

    • @MichaelMoore-yt3pu
      @MichaelMoore-yt3pu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jonw6921 it's not minor a lot of blues artist tuned by ear once or twice and wouldn't tune often so the guitars are always slightly out of tune from our standards but in my opinion we just tune wrong . Led Zeppelin would tune their guitars to open g then drop them to get that blues sound!!

    • @seanleblanc6564
      @seanleblanc6564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@KirtianM The way I understood it he was a pimp in his younger days and a curmudgeon suspicious of any other artist stealing his techniques in the 60s. By all accounts he seems like a dick. Great music nonetheless

  • @wheninroamful
    @wheninroamful 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Skip is treasured by so many who 'know and feel' what others can't for some reason. His music cuts through the ribcage and sinew and hits the heart directly.

  • @treyokelly3520
    @treyokelly3520 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Found this video back in 2006 when I was 14 and been coming back over and over since then. I’m 30 now. Thanks for this upload whoever you are.

  • @feraloracle8239
    @feraloracle8239 8 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    this is my favourite song in the world

    • @ideath173
      @ideath173 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      therefore, your future looks bright

    • @jamesfreud1
      @jamesfreud1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ur my kind of woman.

    • @0patience4flz
      @0patience4flz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mine too

    • @citygasbatteryriot964
      @citygasbatteryriot964 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      So the only truth is death. Taxes are a lie. Hup!

  • @Jim-oe9pt
    @Jim-oe9pt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    So beautiful! Where would American music be without this saint and all his gifts?

  • @joshualayne1
    @joshualayne1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This is truly one of the greatest songs ever penned by man.

  • @derekgreenacre9530
    @derekgreenacre9530 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I saw Skip James in a concert in 1967 and I had never heard of the guy. When he started to play I felt I had undergone a religious experience and my world was changed forever. His music and voice had a haunting quality to it which somehow seemed to make other music seem trivial. When art becomes this powerful it defies all explanations.

  • @bobsmith-ji2uh
    @bobsmith-ji2uh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This guy was the best. Really under appreciated in my opinion.

  • @jpcohen1978
    @jpcohen1978 16 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Amazing. It seems like every time he played his songs, he played them a little different--like a jazz man--and this is certainly the best rendition I've ever heard.

  • @goldenthug9
    @goldenthug9 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Bonafide genius in the great Skip James....the guitar play is flawless my Lord Mr. Skip James and the lyrica and feel amazing. America's finest original music

    • @citygasbatteryriot964
      @citygasbatteryriot964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The wee flaws are the best bits. The natural improvisations. He seems to care more about the words and boot of the song, than his sparkling backing.

  • @ValleyoftheRogue
    @ValleyoftheRogue 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love Skip James and have since the late 1960s, when I was in my early teens. He was as good in the 1960s as he was in the 1930s despite being in poor health (he died in 1969). Have the three-volume set from where this video was taken.

  • @KingLouis420th
    @KingLouis420th 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This song needs to be for forever....not two minutes!! Thank you Skip!

  • @Zeratul723
    @Zeratul723 8 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Holy shit. This dude rocks. How have I never heard of him? I've been slackin'.

  • @mehhhhist
    @mehhhhist 8 ปีที่แล้ว +128

    specifying the spade as being "silver" is somehow very chilling
    it's the little things

    • @divingduck1970
      @divingduck1970 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You can call a spade a spade...

    • @antonmikofsky2073
      @antonmikofsky2073 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      and a golden chain. This is mythic stuff. Like Blind Willie McTell's "Dying Crapshooter's Blues" -- amazing funeral images

    • @Inksmudger
      @Inksmudger 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Anton Mikofsky yeah the silver spade and the golden chain, it’s like some sort of dark fairytale almost.

    • @gregarmstrong9334
      @gregarmstrong9334 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      that spade is tiny,had a lot of money down inside.............

    • @freax1978
      @freax1978 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      read somewhere that the silver spade refers to a power shovel (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silver_Spade) and used to "dig his grave ".

  • @wheninroamful
    @wheninroamful 14 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "never missed that water till my well went dry" THANK YOU SKIP!!

  • @crisisactor420
    @crisisactor420 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Unbelievable. You can't teach this kind of blues. Can't shake it either

  • @gerardsikma237
    @gerardsikma237 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Real good playing! A 'haunting sound'..

  • @levitane11
    @levitane11 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Old Skip got hands as clever as a seamstress but as strong as a god damn sledgehammer.

  • @brendamello2202
    @brendamello2202 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Even Dion Dimucci of Dion and the Belmonts is a fan. Did an album awhile back called ''Son of Skip James''

  • @modernape9878
    @modernape9878 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love his voice! And he has such a command over that guitar.

  • @agungwayne3090
    @agungwayne3090 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    True soul right there.

  • @gerrybrindel3704
    @gerrybrindel3704 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man, where have I been most of my life? Thought I knew lots of the blues greats...but holy cow, Skip James was special, love his work.

  • @L3adb3lly
    @L3adb3lly 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't think I've ever listened to this song just once, always 2 or 3 times in a row

  • @TomTom150
    @TomTom150 18 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This song is hypnotizing me. I can't help myself but listening to it over and over again. Thanks for posting it!! :-)

    • @0patience4flz
      @0patience4flz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      13 years ago?....i just found this...im listening over and over...

    • @rattlesnakejake5513
      @rattlesnakejake5513 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn I’m listening to it NOW

    • @interestingusername1049
      @interestingusername1049 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      14 years ago... this comment is just one year younger than me.

  • @sirsancti5504
    @sirsancti5504 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Idk, man.. It's brutal!
    Love it!

  • @jameat3r
    @jameat3r 14 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    1:45 Those eyes of a bluesman. Just look at them and understand how great he is.

  • @xXscreamblupoxXx
    @xXscreamblupoxXx 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wish this was on the radio, the radio would then become a place only for true music lovers.

  • @kristina98005
    @kristina98005 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    seeing that nobody talks about such great artists anymore makes me feel empty. the thought of being (almost) forgotten is pretty scary. glad that there are still people who listen to this type of music.

  • @CharlieAnteby
    @CharlieAnteby 16 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Skip James. Not only a great talent, but a class act in every sense of the word.Thank you for posting the magnificent piece of blues history and sharing it with others.

  • @baptistasilva1984
    @baptistasilva1984 11 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Obrigado, Skip James, por permitir a minha alma uma conducção mágica ao Mississipi. Nossos espíritos têm um contacto poderoso desde sempre, viva Skip James.

  • @thebisbybisby
    @thebisbybisby 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This brings me to tears. Thank you thank ohh thank you for this being in existence

    • @0patience4flz
      @0patience4flz 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Try Hobo Blues...john lee hooker....made me cry

  • @frankgoodall6885
    @frankgoodall6885 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Simply majestic....Crow jane..So profound but brilliant..X :)

  • @coyotecreekblues6935
    @coyotecreekblues6935 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every time I listen to Skip sing this I just want to put the song in loop and listen to it over and over again.

  • @timmyles314
    @timmyles314 10 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is GREAT MUSIC....too bad there aren't more players like this around.

  • @tinroofbusted
    @tinroofbusted 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sweet Mother of Jesus this is sweet song. The Lord is singing and saying it through this man, God bless this and us all. Thanks for giving this to us all.

  • @thelongdogger
    @thelongdogger 17 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Its amazing that somebody voted less than 5 stars! I loved it. I think the hardest thing and most rewarding thing is when the guitar compliments the voice.

  • @funexperience
    @funexperience 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Blues is from south of USA, im now in the south of the world, in a little country, Chile, and this music is all for me.
    El BLUES es lo mejor!

  • @vinniedurrant
    @vinniedurrant 16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    he pours his heart into this song,how can i ever get my guitaring skills up to this standard.

    • @citygasbatteryriot964
      @citygasbatteryriot964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Your ear is bent in one of the good, good directions, you'll have you're own sound, voice and style.

  • @janepatton2907
    @janepatton2907 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My name is Jane (tagged with Crazy Jane by friends). In 4 months I’ll be ..70). I did not want a funeral until I heard and watched Mr James do this Crow Jane. Now I want a funeral with this video played. Or at least have it played when they put me only 6 feet under.
    This is the only music I want to hear anymore.

    • @JuanCastillo-nx3oi
      @JuanCastillo-nx3oi 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Make it 8 ft under fuck it right 😉

  • @jonathanamaral3273
    @jonathanamaral3273 9 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    man, the sarcastic thing with the nice melody and the tragical lyric is so intense that it looks like a frickin demon wrote that...
    Seriously, Skippy, you're scary man...

    • @johnanderson2320
      @johnanderson2320 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Jonathan Amaral that mississippi delta blues dawwgg!! Itll do that to you and no telling if he had his run in on the cross roads!

    • @mr.squirbs7745
      @mr.squirbs7745 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Its about the crow that would bother him in his backyard

    • @Exeliz
      @Exeliz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Nehemiah James (Skippy) actually had cancer during this recording.. died 2 years later.
      Kinda puts a lot of the song in perspective to me.. What with his playing being weak and his emotions running so high.. It's beautiful.
      "I never missed that water, till my well ran dry..."

    • @Earthdogbonzo3
      @Earthdogbonzo3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Skip's high, thin and mournful voice is chilling. Especially on a dark quiet night lighted by a full moon.
      'Hard Time Killing Floor Blues' . . . . Listened on the night of a blue moon not too far back . . . . in December I believe.

    • @laescueladefilosofiaafricana
      @laescueladefilosofiaafricana 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shout out to Mama Africa.

  • @pmanmusicman
    @pmanmusicman 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was born the year this was filmed yet it is timeless. Hard to believe Skip is 65 in this video.

  • @annaqueen37
    @annaqueen37 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Everyone's gotta enjoy some classic blues every once in a while :3

  • @lsw444
    @lsw444 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank God there is footage like this around. And how else would I be getting to see it other than youtube? Young kids will never appreciate the pre-youtube days...

  • @elpanchito421
    @elpanchito421 18 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this is amazing footage, what a great song.

  • @ricardblanc
    @ricardblanc 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a sense of syncopation along with the loose strings and falsetto voice giving it an erie bluesy feeling that was Skip James.

  • @Bogdancbn
    @Bogdancbn 9 ปีที่แล้ว +256

    more heart in this shit than in poor quality salami

  • @ienjoyapples
    @ienjoyapples 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    young kids appreciate the post-youtube days. how else would we be getting to see this other than youtube?

  • @DiamondSoul
    @DiamondSoul 16 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Every time I listen to this it always amazes me that it's just one man that's making all that music. :) Brilliant. What else is there to say?

  • @thejoin4687
    @thejoin4687 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's reassuring to know that this was one of the earliest TH-cam vids.

  • @likesingjamesloublank839
    @likesingjamesloublank839 9 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    SKIP JAMES : A LEGEND

  • @samuil_maxim
    @samuil_maxim 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this man...many years after,many bands with much more instruments are trying to do a cover of his songs and it doesn't sound right...and he is doing it with one guitar and with his voice..!!!

  • @accentiate2007
    @accentiate2007 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Incredible voice and playing. The master of blues, second to none!

  • @ricardblanc
    @ricardblanc 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want to cry when I see this. It doesn't get any more authentic than this!

  • @juangonzalez-cl2uj
    @juangonzalez-cl2uj 11 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Yo Skip James dope as fuck

  • @markybgoode
    @markybgoode 16 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this guy. Never heard it before, incredible organic finger picking and what a beautiful voice. Just slammin'!

  • @deacanloyden6735
    @deacanloyden6735 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Here in 2019, who else?

  • @sasquatch3217
    @sasquatch3217 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant. I'm 29, from Cincinnati and I feel at home right now for some reason. This makes my hair stand up.

  • @pumpkinheadsteve
    @pumpkinheadsteve 18 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    His guitar playing was great but it's really his voice that made him unique I think. It's really haunting.

  • @raoufbasit
    @raoufbasit 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of my favorite blues guitarist

  • @battistedennis390
    @battistedennis390 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a voice!

  • @giacomopandiani6290
    @giacomopandiani6290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Such an underrated bluesman.

  • @thecorduroysuit
    @thecorduroysuit 18 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    he plays in open C alot too. But yeah, he is absolutley my favorite bluesman as well. He is the greatest.

    • @citygasbatteryriot964
      @citygasbatteryriot964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's hard to make a choice. All so unique. Elizabeth Cotton / Jimi, the kitterfists. Their choice was survival. Many didn't for long.
      Skip is so brillliant.. But my first exposure to him was Jack Bruce (also brilliant).Thanks to these early recordings, and this later, dubious technology, we can appreciate and learn something. Nehamiah, but his name really fits with his music, it's Biblical.
      I'm so glad.

  • @klkgg
    @klkgg 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WoW he oozes talent. When I hear this melody my soul dances.

  • @BM-vi5hk
    @BM-vi5hk 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Alan Wilson (RIP) brought me here.

  • @mathewbaldwin5277
    @mathewbaldwin5277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Absolutely pure love for this song.

  • @ripoffhitman
    @ripoffhitman 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Really inspirtional. I mean, even Robert Johnson would cover Skip James's songs. Skip helped make alternative tunings famous. He'd use open minor tunings, open sus4 tunings, open major, tunings down, using capos, ect. Great guitarest. If you really like the stuff he does here, you'll want "Blues from the delta" which was the stuff he made shortly before he died. If you want to hear his early delta blues, get the 1931 recordings.

  • @dazedcola
    @dazedcola 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow, that was great.First time i heard that song. We're all lucky that he started to record again in the sixties.

  • @bhekumuzigwala
    @bhekumuzigwala 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    This is who Jimi wanted to be when he grew up.

    • @Jiv_Ing57819
      @Jiv_Ing57819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you are revealing an account, that's incredible, yes it would seem so n love jimi 2 ,:-0

  • @eltonjazz
    @eltonjazz 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just discovered this gem. Will look elsewhere for this beautiful music.

  • @donw171
    @donw171 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    The blues is the most beautiful evil you will ever hear....The darkness

    • @xxtemuxinxx
      @xxtemuxinxx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @donw171 interesting description. i'm sure you're aware of the tension between singing inside v outside of the church back in the aughts through the 1920s.

  • @evilbunnysanta
    @evilbunnysanta 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    this version of the song is the best. i liked this song before but now its definitely my favorite song by skip james

  • @erikgiertyk2377
    @erikgiertyk2377 10 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    there is no appearance like this. what did the film makers say to Skip? hey man, we wanna film you playing Crown Jane in front of this building, and he did. this is the most sentimental piece i've ever heard. he nails it to the bone, there is no mistakes, he just play from his heart and kicks it in the ass. this is pure art. thanks for the upload, favorited on many youtube accounts. thanks for saving this piece of history!

    • @nickelangelo5070
      @nickelangelo5070 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Well this was part of the American folk blues festival witch was a collaboration with a bunch of artists, in this particular scene son house and bukka white are sitting next to him. But I agree, skip James is playing straight out of his soul. (As do son house and bukka white in their performances)

    • @saulsaul934
      @saulsaul934 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    • @TheRoyayers
      @TheRoyayers 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Erik Giertyk This is the best description I've ever heard of this master. Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt for me, the most emotional performers. Right to the bone!

    • @nickelangelo5070
      @nickelangelo5070 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      majklet oh, my bad. Its on a DVD I have titled american folk blues festival. So I kinda assumed. Good to know though!

    • @samwaldorf351
      @samwaldorf351 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Erik Giertyk from 0.58 - 1.03 is all mistook. no mistakes? ha!

  • @georgebara1858
    @georgebara1858 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    one of the best blues lyric ever penned and one of the most beatiful blues performances ever captured.

  • @TheRoyayers
    @TheRoyayers 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dramatic, strong !

  • @demienpropedo7226
    @demienpropedo7226 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is a beautiful song!😍

  • @MarianaCruzMarianaCruz
    @MarianaCruzMarianaCruz 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for this :)

  • @ipalindromei
    @ipalindromei 17 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i've watched this video like 40 times in the past week, just staring at his guitar technique

  • @markmarsh27
    @markmarsh27 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome.

  • @JAAYWADE
    @JAAYWADE 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    Skip james is a legend :). i like how every time i listen to his songs i always think way back and what it was like several years agos

  • @kevinatenine9797
    @kevinatenine9797 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Because of the time period I see Crow Jane as an personification of Jim Crow. Keeping that in mind it is even more dark and depressing. Amazing song.

    • @jackfisher4183
      @jackfisher4183 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've always thought of it as a metaphor for drug addiction. What with crow Jane being an old fashioned Southern American term for a dark skinned woman, the references to silver spoons, and not missing the water until it ran dry (like an addiction, not missing something until it's gone)

    • @jackfisher4183
      @jackfisher4183 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Jack Fisher i meant to say the reference to dark skinned woman possibly being a heroin reference due to heroins colour

    • @kevinatenine9797
      @kevinatenine9797 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Jack Fisher I can certainly see that as well. Especially when he mentions he won't anyone take "her" place. I'm no expert on drug addiction but i've read many people who get clean switch to a different or lesser drug to ease their withdrawal, so maybe the guy is trying to quit cold turkey? Thanks for your interpretation.

    • @thebrazilianatlantis165
      @thebrazilianatlantis165 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Crow Jane was an expression that meant dark-skinned female. The song's about feeling like killing your woman.

  • @DominicAJames
    @DominicAJames 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic artist ! Magic happens when he does his thing !!

  • @twentyeighthunnid
    @twentyeighthunnid 15 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    DADFAD !
    Best tuning ever, just so intuitive. Skip's da dadfad master, yeah xD

  • @hope0495
    @hope0495 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoyed every second of this song. Absolutely beautiful.

  • @contactkeithstack
    @contactkeithstack 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    take a 100 years to play like coltrane but strangely take the same amount of time to sound like Skip James.

  • @jayrobb9
    @jayrobb9 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome.
    Such a sad, desolate song, but it sounds so upbeat. Incredible

  • @amyasseektruth8246
    @amyasseektruth8246 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is music, not the noise on MTV today...

    • @4490reddock
      @4490reddock 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hahaha, you're so old you don't even know that MTV doesn't play music anymore

    • @amyasseektruth8246
      @amyasseektruth8246 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      4490reddock lol!!! yea man, in RSA they still do. Oh I forgot, it's probably because we're a 3rd world country

  • @licoricetusslemuss3820
    @licoricetusslemuss3820 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i love this song and i love Skip James.

  • @AdamSurvivingAmerica
    @AdamSurvivingAmerica 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Crow Janie, Crow Janie, Crow Jane, don't you hold you head high
    Someday, baby, you know you got to die
    You got to lay down and...
    You got to die, you got to...
    And I wanna buy me a pistol, wants me forty rounds of ball
    Shoot Crow Jane, just to see her fall
    She got to fall, she got to...
    She got to fall, she got to...
    That's the reason I begged Crow Jane not to hold her head so high
    Someday, baby, you know you got to die
    You got to lay down and...
    And I dug her grave with s silver spade
    Ain't nobody gonna take my Crow Jane place
    You can't take her place no, you can't take her...
    You know, I dug her grave eight feet in the ground
    I didn't feel sorry until they let her down
    They had to let her down, let her...they had to let her down...
    That's the reason I begged Crow Jane not to hold her head too high
    Someday, baby, you know you got to die
    You got to lay down and...
    You know, I let her down with a golden chain
    And every link I would call my Crow Jane's name
    Crow Jane, Crow... Crow Jane, Crow...
    You know I never missed my water till my well went dry
    Didn't miss Crow Jane until the day she died
    Till the day she...
    That's the reason I begged Crow Jane not to hold her head too high
    Someday, baby, you know you got to die
    You got to lay down and...you got to die, you got to...
    That's the reason I begged Crow Jane not to hold her head too high
    Someday, baby, you know you got to die
    You got to lay down and...

  • @LucidNation
    @LucidNation 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    Precious, a real treasure

  • @freeunion
    @freeunion 8 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    the big three of Delta-style blues: John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Skip James [the latter under appreciated in comparison to the first two]

    • @fuzzface8252
      @fuzzface8252 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Except Hooker was Hill Country, Muddy was Delta blues but quickly became what we know now as Chicago blues, and Skip James, although from the delta, his playing had much more in common with Piedmont style blues than the music commonly associated with Delta blues.

    • @peterfilardo9380
      @peterfilardo9380 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@fuzzface8252 Good point.

  • @TheJazzeater
    @TheJazzeater 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    bravo bravo what a great video of a great player

  • @ROBBEAUDOIN66
    @ROBBEAUDOIN66 10 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The most hardcore tune youll listen to today

  • @MatejM
    @MatejM 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good god, now that's incredible! Great song, great singer, great musican, so amazing! Love it. Pure music from heart. And cool lyrics ;)
    Thx for posting.
    Peace