The Blues

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The man who plays Skip James

Keith B. Brown

Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Keith plays the role of Skip James in 'Devil Got My Woman' - Wim Wenders' contribution to The Blues and performs a collection of Skip's songs; some on piano, most on acoustic guitar.

The songs are:
Cypress Grove
Devil Got My Woman
Hard Time Killing Floor
Jesus Is A Mighty Good Leader
Cherry Ball
Special Rider Blues
Illinois Blues
If You Haven't Any Hay (piano)
22-20 (piano)
I'm So Glad

Keith played the role of Son House in 1998 in "Stop Breakin' Down", a film produced and directed by Glenn Marzano. The film was sent to Wim Wenders through Belinda Clasen (producer of the Blues Project). He flew from France - where he spends a great deal of time working - to Germany, and auditioned for Wim in November of 2001. He got the part.

Keith is a singer/songwriter and one of his specialties is traditional blues; He has made two recordings ('Walking on Muddy Waters'1997 and 'Got To Keep Movin'2001) and participated in the compilation, "Hellhound On My Trail - Songs of Robert Johnson". (Telarc), which was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. His contribution to this album was Robert Johnson's 'Walkin Blues'.

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