Skip James was an American blues singer, guitarist and pianist, one of the most haunting voices of Delta blues.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Yola My Blues Away, preserving a distinctive blues world beyond the classical catalogue’s usual borders.

James’s music is spare, high-voiced and unsettling, with guitar and piano writing that turn silence into part of the architecture.

His page is essential for the blues strand. Skip James gives the archive a ghostly, knife-fine blues presence.