Hard Time Killing Floor Blues Meaning

James song hard time killing floor blues was featured in the 2000 film o brother where art thou.

Hard time killing floor blues meaning.

In 2020 james song devil got my woman was added to the grammy hall of fame. Intrigued by a macabre title hard time killing floor blues he asked the shop s owner to play a nearly pristine 78 with a paramount label. Please enjoy my new vintageblues4k version of skip s original 1931 recording of this song. The panel identified it as one of wolf s most recognizable songs.

And included on the soundtrack album. A life of hardship and despair true to the hard times of the 1930 s depression when it was recorded his singing is haunting and bleak a dark classic of the blues. Skip james hard time killin floor blues nehemiah curtis skip james june 9 1 1902 october 3 1969 2 was an american delta blues singer guitarist. Yet james had never been up north until he was brought to grafton wisconsin in 1931 to make that recording for paramount.

General commentskip james one of the legends of delta blues this is a different song but has the same title as a later electric blues killing floor the structure is 8 bars the verses just tell it like it is. In 1991 the song was inducted into the blues foundation hall of fame in the classics of blues recordings category. One might argue that wolf picked up the use of killing floor to mean slaughterhouse from hard time killing floor blues which was recorded by influential delta bluesman skip james in 1931. James was honored with a marker on the mississippi blues trail in bentonia his hometown.

The slow mournful dirge hooked spottswood.