Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Ev1G8F I'd Rather Be the Devil: Skip James and the Blues By: Stephen Calt Publisher: Chicago Review Press Print ISBN: 9781556527463, 1556527462 eText ISBN: 9781569769966, 1569769966 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 3.50 USD SKU 9781569769966R30 Providing a clear look into the life of one of the greatest Mississippi bluesmen, this is the first biography of the late Skip James, perhaps the most creative and idiosyncratic of all blues musicians. His 1931 performances of Devil Got My Woman, I'm So Glad, and 22-20 Blues are masterpieces that transcend the genre. Drawing largely on hundreds of hours of conversations with James himself, it paints a dark and unforgettable portrait of a man untroubled by his own murderous inclinations, a man who achieved one moment of transcendent greatness in a life haunted by failure. In doing so, it offers new insights into the nature of the blues, the world in which it thrived, and its fate when that world vanished.
