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Skip James: Skip James Today! (Vanguard SVRLI9001.)

Max Jones, Melody Maker, 28 September 1968

IN BLUES and other Negro folksong, as in jazz, judgments are much a matter of individual taste, though certain aspects of an artist's work are demonstrably good, bad or indifferent.

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