Skip James singing Devil Got My Woman
This Skip James clip is from the Newport Folk Festival in 1966. James performs his classic song ‘Devil Got My Woman’, which, more recently, was featured prominently in Terry Zwigoff’s film Ghost World. James was one of a host of Mississippi delta performers who traveled to Grafton, Wisconsin, to cut sides for the Paramount label. James cut ‘Devil Got My Woman’ for Paramount in 1931. Yazoo has a good reissue of James’ 1931 recordings: The Complete Early Recordings of Skip James .

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