Special Rider Blues by Skip James Song Details

Skip James's 'Special Rider Blues' had a release date set for 1998. With this song being about 5 minutes long, at This song is fairly a long song compared to the average song length. This song does not have an "Explicit" tag, making it safe for all ages. The song is number 5 out of 20 in Blues From The Delta by Skip James. Going off of the ISRC code of this track, we detected that the origin of this track is from United States. In terms of popularity, Special Rider Blues is currently not that popular. Although the overall vibe is very danceable, it does project more negative sounds.

BPM and Tempo

The tempo marking of Special Rider Blues by Skip James is Andante (at a walking pace), since this song has a tempo of 104 BPM. With that information, we can conclude that the song has a slow tempo. The time signature for this track is 4/4.

Music Key

This song has a musical key of D♭ Major. This also means that this song has a camelot key of 3B. So, the perfect camelot match for 3B would be either 3B or 4A. While, 4B can give you a low energy boost. For moderate energy boost, you would use 12B and a high energy boost can either be 5B or 10B. Though, if you want a low energy drop, you should looking for songs with either a camelot key of 3A or 2B will give you a low energy drop, 6B would be a moderate one, and 1B or 8B would be a high energy drop. Lastly, 12A allows you to change the mood.

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Popularity
Loudness
-21.13 dB
Acousticness
58%
Danceability
61%
Energy
8%
Instrumentalness
0%
Liveness
10%
Loudness
65%
Speechiness
4%
Valence
31%

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ISRC
USVG28808977
Label
L-M Records/RCA Records