Wednesday, June 10, 2009

You Know You Got to Die

Among the finest, most gently and insistently terrifying, of the Delta Blues. Skip sings very gently, and his guitar playing is akin to John Hurt's in its steady pulse-- but everything here is darker than despair. It's clear the intent is pure beauty; Skip was a careful craftsman. In small doses you can enjoy the lightness of the syncopation and the softness of Skip's voice; in large doses this album may pull you down.

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