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“Song for James”

Nick Spitzer: Davell Crawford, the man comes out swingin’, and that was “Song for James.”

Davell Crawford: James Booker, yeah.

NS: Tell them about James Booker. I mean, you met and knew James Booker.

DC: No, I did not.

No, I did not.

NS: No? Just knew his legacy?

DC: I knew nothing of James Booker. You know how I found out about James Booker?

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I started playing at Snug Harbor when I was about fourteen or fifteen years old. And George, one of the owners, for my seventeenth birthday, gave me a stack–that was my birthday present–of James Booker CD's. I'd never heard James Booker, didn't grow up listening to James Booker. Actually, I didn't really grow up listening to New Orleans music.

That’s a whole ‘nother thing, right?

NS: But there still is very much a New Orleans sound in Booker that we hear that you know so well, all those rolls and runs.

DC: Well, you know what I thought? I thought that–and I still think thi Davell Crawford — “Down By The Riverside” - YouTube MAXE