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Skip James vinyl records

3 albums with 34 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Nehemiah Curtis James. Blues and gospel singer and songwriter, playing both guitar and piano. Known for his distinctive falsetto vocals and minor-key guitar sound, played in an open D-minor tuning. Born: June 21, 1902, in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Died: October 3, 1969, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Cancer) Raised on the Woodbine plantation just outside Betonia, Mississippi, James was drawn to music from an early age. As a child he was inspired to be a musician after he heard Henry Stuckey and Rich Griffin play a Saturday night dance party. He taught himself piano after watching a rural pianist, and developed his guitar style after Stuckey showed him how to tune his guitar to an open E minor chord.