ROOTS
Roots of Skip James
The artists and genres Skip James came out of — one hop back on the influence tree.
J.B. LenoirartistJ. B. Lenoir was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter, active in the Chicago blues scene in the 1950s and 1960s. In The Encyclopedia of Popular Music he is described as both an "extrovert R&B man in the leopard-skin jacket who chanted infectious trifles" and a "thoughtful and intelligent writer of starkly honest blues songs."
Son Houseartist
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Kansas Joe McCoyartist