Son House Father Of The Delta Blues (LP, 180g Vinyl)

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Son House: Father Of The Delta Blues (LP, 180g Vinyl)

(Analogue Productions) 9 tracks - from the original master tapes

The music in this album is that of Eddie J. 'Son' House, Jr., and it represents the payment of a debt. It's a debt owed to bluesmen born too early to have been recorded, and to the later great ones who sang their songs alone, without benefit of recording studios or microphones. Son House was one of the lucky ones. He recorded nine skies for Paramount Records in 1930, and, of these, only four ('Preaching the Blues' and 'My Black Mama,' both in two parts) have ever been found. The others were 'Dry Spell Blues' ffwo parts), 'Clarks-dale Moan,' 'Mississippi County Farm' and 'What Do You Want Me to Do!' If you find one, baby, call me collect day or night. During the 1930's he worked as a tractor driver in Robinsonville, Mississippi, a wide spot on a dirt road that parallels Route 61 about twenty miles south of Memphis. Son recalls an incident in 1936 or 1937 while he, Willie Brown and a harmonica player named Leroy were having an impromptu session. A car stopped and a man jumped out and quickly assembled his recording equipment and microphones. He taped three or four songs, packed up his gear and drove away without asking for any names or song titles. It must have been a talent scout for Major Bowes. Not until 1942 did Alan Lomax, the peripatetic man with the tape re-corder. find him there and record him for the Library of Congress. Son moved to Rochester, New York, in 1943 and worked as a porter on the New York Central Railroad, a grill cook for Howard Johnson's, and shaved the hair from dogs and cats to prepare them for veterinary surgery. He stopped playing the guitar in 1948 because the post-World War II generation didn't want to hear the old blues anymore. Music had to move, man. It had to jive, jump, step, plug-in-that-amp-baby, go, go go!

Son House listened and said to hell with it. A man's got his pride. He quit. On a June evening sixteen years later, three young white men came to 61 Greig Street in Rochester and ended a search of three weeks and nearly 4,000 miles. They played tapes of his 1930 records and told him that there were once again people who would listen. Could he? Would he?

The same pride that made him stop playing now made him want to start again. It took a unique kind of personal courage. The old songs started to come back and, with them, the driving style, the flashing metal slider across the strings, and the voice, the voice—the same low melancholy an-guish flared with spontaneous falsettos. And so Son House returned from his self-imposed limbo. People call him 'legendary,' but he isn't—not in any awesome sense. He likes his eggs over easy, his bourbon straight, and when an order of fried chicken is too big, he wraps the extra pieces in a napkin and takes them home. Son is quiet in a diffident manner, painfully polite and he still says 'Thank you' when he signs an autograph. Yet he is nobody's Uncle Tom. He was taking an early morning walk along the beach at Malibu when a lady called the police and said an old colored man was looking at the houses. The law came and wanted to know who and what and why, so Son told him who and what and why and a few other things, too. In the course of Son's recent appearances across the country. we met a lot of good people, and they've all done something to help. They were good people who didn't ask for anything, but just helped and helped. Son remembers the tall, blonde girl with the wide smile who was kind and sincerely concerned when he was sick during the 1964 Newport Festival.

He has never met the two bearded young men, Peter and Paul, with whom she sings, but he remembers Mary, 'a good person.' And he remembers Judy Collins, who stood beside him backstage at the Philadelphia Folk Festival that August. It was his first appearance in a long time and he was nervous, but she told him he'd do just fine, and he did. If anyone made Son's return possible, it's Al Wilson. He's the best bluesman ever born with white skin, and if you don't believe me, just ask Son or Skip or Sleepy John or Bukka or Robert Pete, because he has played with them all. They listen to him and then they smile and reach for a guitar and he moves them and makes them better. When Son first heard Al play the old Son House songs, it rolled back empty years and blew the dust from his memory. In this album, Al plays second guitar on Empire State Express. and together they drive and build intensity until it climaxes in a triple ending that left the studio audience limp. Al's harmonica backing on Levee Camp Moan is a quiet masterpiece of subtle taste. His notes tumble a slow cascade down a waterfall of music along with the guitar, and Son smiled and knew he was there. And thank you to George and Paul and John and Ringo, and Mick and Brian and The Supremes, and The Righteous Brothers, and Bobby—especially Bobby—because they're bringing it all back home and that's where it belongs. Because when it gets there, Son House will be waiting, waiting and knowing because the man has paid his dues and probably paid a little bit extra for all of us, too.

'The blues ain't nothin' but a low-down shakin' chill. If you never had 'em, children, I sure hope you never will.'

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Interpret: Son House
Album titlle: Father Of The Delta Blues (LP, 180g Vinyl)
Label MUSIC ON VINYL
Genre Blues
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Artikelart LP
EAN: 8719262005358
weight in Kg 0.3

House, Son - Father Of The Delta Blues (LP, 180g Vinyl) LP 1
01	Death Letter	Son House
02	Pearline	Son House
03	Louise McGhee	Son House
04	John The Revelator	Son House
05	Empire State Express	Son House
06	Preachin' Blues	Son House
07	Grinning In Your Face	Son House
08	Sundown	Son House
09	Levee Camp Moan	Son House

Son House Eddie James Jr. - everybody knows him as Son House – was born March 21, 1902... more

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"Son House"

Son House

Eddie James Jr. - everybody knows him as Son House – was born March 21, 1902 in Riverton, Mississippi . After working as a preacher for several years, he turned to playing the blues during the late 1920s. His highly rhytmic and percussive style influenced contemporaries like Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.
Although he recorded for Paramount (alongside Charlie Patton), he remained unknown outside the local Coahoma County region in Mississippi.
In the early 1940s he was recorded by researcher and archivist Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress – and gave up music for the next two decades after moving permanently to Rochester, New York.
In the early 1960s a group of folk and blues enthusiasts, students and record collectors developed a strong interest in the pre-war blues originators. Son House was still suspected in Mississippi, and the young folks were surprised to finally discover him not far from their universities on the east coast in the state of New York.

With the support of his discoverers, the second career of Son House began. He played for mostly white students at universities and in coffee shops, recorded a new album for Columbia and toured the world, also as a member of the American Folk Blues Festival. Son House died October 19, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan.
During a career spanning over more than 60 years, Son House inspired Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and John Mooney, Bonnie Raitt, The White Stripes, John Hammond a.m.o.

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