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wouldn't be surprised if there's a mississippi john hurt record with the same name, but this one is Skip, see links.
-- Heah 06:51, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What references would you require? We are discussing folk musicians, not scientific studies. Just listen to the music. I suppose one could gather together fingerpicking guitarists and ask them to set down their impressions of his music so there would be a documentary reference, but perhaps I may set down my opinion here: "James is regarded amongst the many fingerpicking guitarist that I know, as a gifted and distinctive guitarist" - ED Denson. Satisfactory? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edenson ( talk • contribs) 19:42, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Skip James is a unique talent and does require any support more anybody's ears to testify it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.11.209.83 ( talk) 05:30, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
The entry writer says, "James' classically-informed, finger-picking style was fast and clean, using the entire register of the guitar with heavy, hypnotic bass lines," and someone has posted "citation needed." Why on earth would a citation be needed for info gleaned from listening to the music? — Preceding unsigned comment added by E-elemental ( talk • contribs) 22:32, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to see a reference on the D Minor tuning. Everythng I have read--and I have citations--indicated that Skip used E Minor tuning, not D Minor. The songs in question are in the key of E Minor, so Skip would have had to use a capo to get his guitar to sound in E Minor if tuned to D Minor. Robert Johnson's song "Hellhound On My Trail" is in E Minor tuning.
ACushen ( talk) 18:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
I believe you are correct, I changed it to E minor and cited a quote from Stephen Calt's biography of Skip James where he mentions that it was tuned to an open E minor.
169.232.198.121 (
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Thanks for your changings: being french, my english is awkward! But I think it's a pity to have suppressed the quotation of Vietnam blues, a song which shows Skip's deep involvment (despite the fact that he was so ill) abouts this war, and about the poor blokes who had to kill "maybe their brothers"! Not many blues lyrics are so involved, ansd Cassandra's version is great! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mardigan ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks fot answering. But I never wrote in the article that "Cassandra 's version (was) great": just in this talk! I wrote: "Cassandra Wilson, who sings Vietnam blues. In this song, Skip James shows a real political conscience for « The poor boys fightin’ and hidin’ in them holes / Maybe killin’ their brothers they don’t know. » , which is neutral ans expresses only the truth. It is legal to quote some lines of a song or paragraphs of a book: if not, nobody could write literary critics. Furthermore, millions of wkp pages makes compliments about singers, actors, sportsmen... even in this page, where praises are logicaly written about Skip's style. Im not so sure that many traditional bluesmen wrote songs against Vietnam war, contrarily to folk singer or rockers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mardigan ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
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wouldn't be surprised if there's a mississippi john hurt record with the same name, but this one is Skip, see links.
-- Heah 06:51, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
What references would you require? We are discussing folk musicians, not scientific studies. Just listen to the music. I suppose one could gather together fingerpicking guitarists and ask them to set down their impressions of his music so there would be a documentary reference, but perhaps I may set down my opinion here: "James is regarded amongst the many fingerpicking guitarist that I know, as a gifted and distinctive guitarist" - ED Denson. Satisfactory? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Edenson ( talk • contribs) 19:42, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
Skip James is a unique talent and does require any support more anybody's ears to testify it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.11.209.83 ( talk) 05:30, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
The entry writer says, "James' classically-informed, finger-picking style was fast and clean, using the entire register of the guitar with heavy, hypnotic bass lines," and someone has posted "citation needed." Why on earth would a citation be needed for info gleaned from listening to the music? — Preceding unsigned comment added by E-elemental ( talk • contribs) 22:32, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to see a reference on the D Minor tuning. Everythng I have read--and I have citations--indicated that Skip used E Minor tuning, not D Minor. The songs in question are in the key of E Minor, so Skip would have had to use a capo to get his guitar to sound in E Minor if tuned to D Minor. Robert Johnson's song "Hellhound On My Trail" is in E Minor tuning.
ACushen ( talk) 18:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
I believe you are correct, I changed it to E minor and cited a quote from Stephen Calt's biography of Skip James where he mentions that it was tuned to an open E minor.
169.232.198.121 (
talk) 18:25, 3 May 2013 (UTC)z
Thanks for your changings: being french, my english is awkward! But I think it's a pity to have suppressed the quotation of Vietnam blues, a song which shows Skip's deep involvment (despite the fact that he was so ill) abouts this war, and about the poor blokes who had to kill "maybe their brothers"! Not many blues lyrics are so involved, ansd Cassandra's version is great! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mardigan ( talk • contribs) 12:09, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
Thanks fot answering. But I never wrote in the article that "Cassandra 's version (was) great": just in this talk! I wrote: "Cassandra Wilson, who sings Vietnam blues. In this song, Skip James shows a real political conscience for « The poor boys fightin’ and hidin’ in them holes / Maybe killin’ their brothers they don’t know. » , which is neutral ans expresses only the truth. It is legal to quote some lines of a song or paragraphs of a book: if not, nobody could write literary critics. Furthermore, millions of wkp pages makes compliments about singers, actors, sportsmen... even in this page, where praises are logicaly written about Skip's style. Im not so sure that many traditional bluesmen wrote songs against Vietnam war, contrarily to folk singer or rockers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mardigan ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 19 March 2015 (UTC)