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Podcast: DISGRACELAND
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Skip James: A Sawmill Shootout, Pimping, Bootlegging, and the Son of a Preacher Man
Category: Music
Duration: 00:44:27
Publish Date: 2023-04-18 07:10:00
Description:

Skip James’s most famous lyric was “I’d rather be the Devil” and he put his money where his mouth was. He shot a man dead, spent time as a pimp and a bootlegger, and womanized up and down the United States. Skip may have eventually found religion, and even recognition as the last great bluesman to be discovered by white America, but all that devilish living–and a possible hex–would bring his lifestyle to a brutal end.

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