Editing Skip James (section)

===James as guitarist===
James often played guitar with an [[List of guitar tunings|open D-minor tuning]] (D–A–D–F–A–D), resulting in the "deep" sound of the 1931 recordings. He reportedly learned this tuning from his musical mentor, the unrecorded bluesman Henry Stuckey,<ref>{{cite book | last =Komara | first =Edward | title =Encyclopedia of the Blues | publisher =Routledge | year =2006 | pages=505 }}</ref> who in turn was said to have acquired it from [[Bahamians|Bahamian]] soldiers during the [[First World War]],<ref>{{cite book | last = Calt | first =Stephen | title =I'd Rather Be the Devil | publisher =Chicago Review Press | year =1994 | pages=89 }}</ref> despite the fact that his service card shows he did not serve overseas. [[Robert Johnson]] also recorded in this tuning, his "Hell Hound on My Trail" being based on James's "Devil Got My Woman."<ref name="AMG"/> James's classically informed [[Fingerstyle guitar|fingerpicking]] style was fast and clean, using the entire register of the guitar, with heavy, hypnotic bass lines.{{citation needed|date=November 2009}} His style of playing had more in common with the [[Piedmont blues]] of the East Coast than with the [[Delta blues]] of his native Mississippi.{{citation needed|date=May 2009}}