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Son of Skip James Son of Skip James Son of Skip James is the thirtieth album by American singer/songwriter Dion. It was released on November 6, 2007 on the Verve Forecast Records label. The album stayed on the Billboard Blues Albums chart for twelve weeks, peaking at #4 on November 24, 2007. The album serves as a follow-up to Dion's 2006 Grammy Award-nominated blues album, "Bronx in Blue." The majority of tracks on "Son of Skip James" are covers of well-known blues songs, some of them classics. The album's title references blues legend Skip James, a friend of Dion's. Dion described the use of
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