MEDIUM HYBRID SACD
CONDITION sealed
CD CASE M mint
BOOKLET M mint
SERIAL NUMBER No
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo, playable on all CD Players
MUSICIANS HOMEPAGE --
Son House - vocals, steel guitar
Al Wilson - guitar, harmonica
death letter - 4:27
pearline - 4:38
louise mcghee - 6:18
john the revelator - 2:36
empire state express - 3:42
preachin' blues - 5:51
grinning in your face - 2:13
sundown - 6:19
levee camp moan - 9:30
Mississippi's Son House was already legendary for a small collection of live field recordings made by folklorist Alan Lomax in 1941 and 1942, and for having taught some important licks to both Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters before he was rediscovered by a new generation of college-age fans in 1964
The 'Father of the Delta Blues' recorded this namesake LP for Columbia Records a year later in 1965
It's become, in the words of Living Blues magazine — »Essential recordings by one of the greatest bluesmen ever«
Son was born Eddie James House, Jr., on March 21, 1902, in Riverton, Miss
By the age of 15, he was preaching the gospel in various Baptist churches as the family seemingly wandered from one plantation to the next
He didn't even bother picking up a guitar until he turned 25; to quote House, »I didn't like no guitar when I first heard it; oh gee, I couldn't stand a guy playin' a guitar
I didn't like none of it«
But if his ambivalence to the instrument was obvious, even more obvious was the simple fact that Son hated plantation labor even more and had developed a taste for corn whiskey
After drunkenly launching into a blues at a house frolic in Lyon, Miss., one night and picking up some coin for doing it, the die seemed to be cast; Son House may have been a preacher, but he was part of the blues world now
Now, sit back and enjoy one of the genere's greatest, on a reissue that's the best that's been made to date
RECORDING April 12 - 14 1965 in New York City
ENGINEERING --
LABEL Columbia
RE MASTERING Ryan Smith
RE RELEASED 2016
AVERAGE RATING 5 Stars out of 5
MADE IN USA
STYLE Blues / Delta Blues
AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
