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Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James (June 21, 1902 ? October 3, 1969) was an
American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter.
Biography
Early years James was born near Bentonia, Mississippi. His father was a
converted bootlegger turned preacher. As a youth, James heard local
musicians such as Henry Stuckey and brothers Charlie and Jesse Sims and
began playing the organ in his teens. He worked on road construction and
levee-building crews in his native Mississippi in the early 1920s, and
wrote what is perhaps his earliest song, "Illinois Blues", about his
experiences as a laborer. Later in the '20s he sharecropped and made
bootleg whiskey in the Bentonia area. He began playing guitar in open
D-minor tuning and developed a three-finger picking technique that he would
use to great effect on his recordings. In addition, he began to practice
piano-playing, drawing inspiration from the Mississippi blues pianist
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