The Delta Blues Giants

[Mister Obvious]

The author was known for the insane, cruel comments he'd make about the people he was writing about...

Here are some examples:

SON HOUSE: "...a hapless derelict..." pg 300
JAMES MCKUNE: "...a forlorn, irrelevant figure....a semi-derelict...." pg 217
AL WILSON: "...a high school nerd..." pg 269
COLLEGE BLUES FANS: " ...strange misfits...commited suicide..." pg 260
DICK WATERMAN: "...virtually a mental case..." pg 299
NICK PERLS: "...petulant and abrasive." pg 299
MABEL JAMES: "...the sort of woman to plunge an icepick into a Delta Sharecropper, leave the body in a plantation ditch..." pg 294
REV. E.D. JAMES: "...a man of primitive anger." pg 166
ROBERT PETE WILLIAMS: "...a caricature of a pimp." pg 267
ANNIE MCDOWELL: "...had a pop-eyed deranged look..." pg 268
FRED MCDOWELL: "... musical piety did not blend well with his purple shirt." pg 268
JOHN FAHEY: " ...avariciously attached [himself] to blues singers.." pg 268
BANANA ED DENSON: "...knew nothing about blues music...a hanger-on..." pg 278
TACOMA RECORDS: "...two -bit label...inept ambitious schemers..." pg 281

http://www.ficara.net/writing/meeting_skip_james.html

Guy seemed like a total asshole. I wish Skip's story had been in better hands, but oh well. I guess things turn out the way they're meant to. Just seems pretty unfair.