Locally, Son remained popular, and in the s, together with Patton's associate, Willie Brown, he was the leading musician of Coahoma County. There he was a formative influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters. Work for Library of Congress and Fisk University. The following year, he left the Delta for Rochester, New York, and gave up music.
In , a group of young record collectors discovered House, whom they knew of from his records issued by Paramount and by the Library of Congress. With their encouragement, he relearned his style and repertoire and enjoyed a career as an entertainer to young white audiences in the coffee houses, folk festivals and concert tours of the American folk music revival billed as a "folk blues" singer.
He recorded several albums, and some informally taped concerts have also been issued as albums. Son House died in There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Community Collections. Michael Crowley. Kevin Cahill. Randy S. Purchasable with gift card. My Black Mama - Part 1 My Black Mama - Part 2 Preachin' the Blues - Part 1 Preachin' the Blues - Part 2 Dry Spell Blues - Part 1 Dry Spell Blues - Part 2 Walkin' Blues Clarksdale Moan March 21, ?
October 19, , better known as Son House, was an influential blues singer and guitarist. His date of birth is a matter of some debate. Son House himself alleged that he was middle aged during World War I, and, more specifically, that he was 79 in , which would mean that he was born around However, all legal records place his birth on March 21, House was born, the middle of three brothers, in Riverton, Mississippi, two miles from famed blues capital Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Around age seven or eight, he was brought by his mother to Tallulah, Louisiana after his parents separated.
The young Son House was determined to become a Baptist preacher, and at age fifteen began his preaching career. Despite the church's firm stand against blues music and the sinful world which revolved around it, House nevertheless became attracted to it and taught himself guitar in his midtwenties, inspired by the work of Willie Wilson.
After killing a man, allegedly in self-defense, he spent time on Parchman Farm in and He then faded from public view until the country blues revival in the s when, after a long search of the Mississippi Delta region by Nick Perls, Dick Waterman and Phil Spero, he was "re-discovered" in June, in Rochester, New York where he had lived since ; House had been retired from the music business for many years, working for the New York Central Railroad, and was completely unaware of the international revival of enthusiasm for his early recordings.
0コメント