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James' song "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" was featured in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? and included on the soundtrack album. [17] James was the inspiration for Dion's 2007 blues album, Son of Skip James, which peaked at No. 4. [18] [19] James was honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail in Bentonia, his hometown.
Howlin' Wolf recorded "Killing Floor" in Chicago in August 1964, which Chess Records released as a single. [2] According to blues guitarist and longtime Wolf associate Hubert Sumlin, the song uses the killing floor – the area of a slaughterhouse where animals are killed – as a metaphor or allegory for male-female relationships: "Down on the killing floor – that means a woman has you down ...
Both the original album and the bonus disc versions of "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues", "Keep on the Sunny Side", and "Angel Band" are used in the film. The music credits for the movie list two songs, "Admiration" (written by William Tyers and performed by Pat Rebillo) and "What Is Sweeter" (written by M. K. Jerome), which are not included on ...
Like Skip James and Jack Owens and other blues musicians from Bentonia, Mississippi, Holmes learned to play the blues from Henry Stuckey, the originator of the Bentonia blues. [3] Holmes' music is based in the Bentonia tuning utilizing open E-minor, open D-minor and a down tuned variant, and is noted for its haunting, ethereal, rhythmic and ...
"Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" 3:24: 2. "Crow Jane" 3:00: 3. "Washington D.C. Hospital Center Blues" 4:12: 4. "Special Rider Blues" 5:11: 5. "Drunken Spree" 2:49: 6 ...
It is included on various compilations as well as Hard Time Killing' Floor (2005), a CD collecting all of James's known recordings, issued by Yazoo Records. [2] James's version is noted for its irony, as the upbeat melody and repeated refrain of "I'm so glad" are set against lyrics that describe restlessness and romantic anguish.
Taft made three HD videos for Screaming In The Wind, "Screaming in The Wind," "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues," and "Sleeping In The Sunlight" all directed by Alex Hoelscher. The album made the top 10 Blues Rock albums of 2014 on the Blues Underground Network, [8] and the song "Red Line" was the #1 single on the Hit Tracks Top 100. [9]
"Killing Floor", a song on Bruce Dickinson's 1998 album The Chemical Wedding "Killing Floor", a song on Black Stone Cherry's 2011 album Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea; Killing Floor, a 1992 album by Vigilantes of Love; Killing Floor (British band), a British blues rock band; Killing Floor (American band), an American electro-industrial ...