Cypress Grove Blues

4.Cypress Grove Blues 5:28
Nehemiah ‘Skip’ James / Wynwood Music Co. Inc. obo Wynwood Music Co. Inc.

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Skip James created some of the deepest, darkest and most intense music ever, anywhere. Fittingly, he was from Bentonia, in the deepest, darkest heart of Mississippi, where many of the Blues’ deepest practitioners come from. They still go on there. Jimmie ‘Duck’ Holmes inherited the Blue Front from his folks and welcomes everybody in. Paul captured this song from Skip’s 1931 Paramount recording. It’s about a graveyard…

Played on a Martin New Yorker guitar in the key of open D minor tuning