James, Markus / Snakeskin Violin
Album: Snakeskin Violin   Collection:World
Artist:James, Markus   Added:Mar 2008
Label:Firenze Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2008-04-06 Pull Date: 2008-06-08 Charts: Reggae/World
Week Ending: Jun 8 Jun 1 May 25 May 18 May 4 Apr 27 Apr 20 Apr 13
Airplays: 1 1 4 1 1 7 3 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jul 17, 2012: Global Warming at the Cafe Bohemian
Are You Ready (Mississippi Daze)
4. May 27, 2008: Global Warming at the Cafe Bohemian
Are You Ready (Mississippi Daze)
2. Sep 02, 2008: Deep Fried And Sanctified
Weather Vane
5. May 24, 2008: Disorder Lost, Disorder Found
X-Ray Soul
3. Jun 03, 2008: Deep Fried & Sanctified
Exile Tracks
6. May 23, 2008: No Cover, No Minimum
Weather Vane

Album Review
Don Farrell
Reviewed 2008-04-07
Blues and African (Mali) Blues.Mississippi delta Blues with
African chants & African instruments, Blues e guitar with
chants. cool cool sound, all tracks are good.
1: 3:56 African Blues sound, vocal in English , midfast tempo
2: 2:22 African instrumentation, breathy male vocal in English, slow
**** 3: 3:36 GREAT fast ( Mississippi All Stars sound) BLUES trance delta groove, male vocal in English.
***4: 4:02 hand clapping percussion, cool swirl drone, male vocals underneath.
5: 4:26 slow strumming, vocal
****6: 4:16 nice Mali chant, cool hand clapping perc., with voc in Eng., slow
****7: 3:32 African sound, cool vocal chant, "I won't let it" with raspy over dub??
**** 8: 2:39 bowed string African sound, slow voc in Eng.,
9: 0:56 village ambience
10: 3:45 slow Blues voc & guitar, Malian chant & bowed string African sound
11: 3:38 Blues strumming, voc in Eng., African chanting & bowed string
*** 12: 2:47 great mid fast picking, both Blues & African e guitar, raspy vocal
*** 13:  4:23 big rich sound, slow to mid, voc in Eng, Malian chant, African e guitar
14: 3:05 mid to faster, raspy vocal in Eng., great string picking, with African sound
****15: 2:35 pounding drum kit, e guitar, chants, short voc in English. D  Farrell   04/2008


Track Listing
1. I Won't Let It   8. O.M. Boogie
2. Lonely Mile   9. Ambience
3. Are You Ready (Mississippi Daze)   10. Driven By
4. Exile Tracks   11. Sundown Pearl (Snakeskin Violin Pt. 1)
5. So Much Soul   12. X-Ray Soul
6. All That You Can't Keep   13. Heatin Up Now
7. Weather Vane   14. Mystified
  15. Soon