This week on The Search for Skip James, I find inspiration from the Mississippi Records tape series. If you know, you know.
Ever since I first wandered into Mississippi Records’ original shop on Mississippi Ave about 20 years ago, those tapes have been something like guideposts—tiny portals.
For this week’s show, I went digging through my own shelves, pulling a few discs I first met through those tapes.
Below is the full set from this week’s broadcast. It wanders, as all good mixtapes should.
Enjoy the slight tape hiss.
Set list
• The Stranger – “Searching”
• The Kinks – “People Take Pictures of Each Other”
• David Crosby – “Music Is Love”
• Pavement – “Easily Fooled”
• Cameron Winter – “Nina + Field of Cops”
• Joni Mitchell – “Coyote”
• Nina Simone – “22nd Century”
• The Revelations – “Take Care of Us”
• Willie Nelson – “Yesterday’s Wine”
• The Staple Singers – “Don’t Knock”
• Ted Lucas – “Raga in ‘D’”
• Michael Hurley – “Letter in Neon”
• Exuma – “You Don’t Know What’s Going On”
• Minutemen – “Cohesion”
• Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Long as I Can See the Light”
• Sun Ra – “Trying to Put the Blame on Me”
• Norma Tanega – “You’re Dead”
Thanks for listening. See you next week down the rabbit hole.
