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Bentonia School a style of guitar-playing sometimes attributed to blues players from Bentonia Mississippi features a shared repertoire of songs guitar tunings and chord-voicings with a distinctively minor tonality not found in other styles of blues music.While not all blues musicians from Bentonia played in this style one particular blues player Skip James (1902–1969) had a distinct complicated and highly sophisticated style that veered from typical blues guitar playing.