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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.
Chris Thomas King (born Durwood ... his rendition of Skip James's Hard Time Killing Floor Blues was recorded live ... 21st Century Blues... from da Hood (1994) as ...
All tracks are written by Skip James except as noted. Side One; No. Title Length; 1. "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" 3:24: 2. "Crow Jane" 3:00: 3. "Washington D.C ...
"Killing Floor" is recognized as a blues standard, with Skip James' 1931 recording "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues" as the likely inspiration. [16] In 1991, the song was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in the "Classics of Blues Recordings" category. [4] The panel identified it as "one of Wolf’s most recognizable songs.
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.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2002, the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals (for singer Dan Tyminski, whose voice overdubbed George Clooney's in the film on "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow", Nashville songwriter Harley Allen, and the Nashville Bluegrass Band's Pat Enright), and the Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal ...
“Hard Times Killing Floor Blues” (Skip James song), 1931"Killing Floor" (Howlin' Wolf song), 1964 "Killing Floor", a song on Redgum's 1978 album If You Don't Fight You Lose
Biograph reissued the material under the same title adding "Motherless & Fatherless", "Skip's Worried Blues", "Catfish Blues" and "Cypress Grove Blues". They also reissued the recordings with a different track order as A Tribute to Skip James and two other tracks from the 1964 sessions were included on King of the Delta Blues Singers.