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| - Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. ' (Riverton (Mississippi), 21 March 1902- Detroit (Michigan), October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. His musical style with repetitive rhythms, often played using a slide, and a singing manner that elements of southern gospel and affected a large number of negrospiritual contained, musicians, including Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Jack White.
- Eddie James "Son" House Jr. (1902-1988) is renowned as one of the pioneering Mississippi blues singer-guitarists who recorded during the Depression years, thereafter returning to obscurity until rediscovery by white folklorists and blues enthusiasts brought acclaim late in life. Originally intending to become a Baptist preacher, Son House struck up a friendship with Charley Patton and Willie Brown, two singer-guitarists whose records were to be highly rated by the blues collectors and revivalists of the 1960s. He performed alongside Brown and Patton, eventually cutting a number of 78 rpm sides for Paramount Records in 1930. Like many country blues artists of the time, his records did not sell, and, with the Depression forcing record companies to cut back on new recordings, he went back to
- Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing. After years of hostility to secular music, as a preacher, and for a few years also as a church pastor, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25. He quickly developed a unique style by applying the rhythmic drive, vocal power and emotional intensity of his preaching to the newly learned idiom. In a short career interrupted by a spell in Parchman Farm penitentiary, he developed to the point that Charley Patton, the foremost blues artist of the Mississippi Delta region, invited him to share engagements, and to accompany him to a 1930 recording session for Paramount Records.
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| - Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. ' (Riverton (Mississippi), 21 March 1902- Detroit (Michigan), October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist. His musical style with repetitive rhythms, often played using a slide, and a singing manner that elements of southern gospel and affected a large number of negrospiritual contained, musicians, including Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Jack White. House was as a middle of three brothers born in Riverton, not far from Clarksdale, Mississippi. His parents divorced when he was seven or eight and he moved to Tallulah, Louisiana. The young Son House was determined to be a Baptist preacher, and at the age of 15, he began to preach. Despite that the Church blues music and related culture regarded as sinful, felt House are attracted to this movement, and inspired by the work of Willie Wilson , he taught himself to play the guitar when he mid-20 was. After killing a man in 1927 or 1928, allegedly in self defense, he was sentenced to a 15-year prison sentence, of which he served two years. Then he moved to Lula, Mississippi, where he Charlie Patton and Willie Brown met (around this time he also met Robert Johnson). The three started to play together at local gigs. House made his first recordings In 1930 for Paramount Records in a session with Charlie Patton. However, these sold poorly by the great depression. He rows with Patton and Brown, and during this time he also worked as tractor driver. In 1941 were recordings of Alan Lomax recorded in House by the Library of Congress. He then moved to Rochester, New York, where he worked as a Porter for the New York Central Railroad and as a cook.Meantime, House stopped as a musician and driven into oblivion when he was in the years 60, stimulated by the American folk blues revival, was rediscovered by the public. In the next few years he took several studio albums on and he went on several tours throughout America and Europe. In 1980, House included in the Blues Hall of Fame. He died in 1988 to Larynx Cancer in Detroit, Michigan, where he lived since 1976.
- Eddie James "Son" House Jr. (1902-1988) is renowned as one of the pioneering Mississippi blues singer-guitarists who recorded during the Depression years, thereafter returning to obscurity until rediscovery by white folklorists and blues enthusiasts brought acclaim late in life. Originally intending to become a Baptist preacher, Son House struck up a friendship with Charley Patton and Willie Brown, two singer-guitarists whose records were to be highly rated by the blues collectors and revivalists of the 1960s. He performed alongside Brown and Patton, eventually cutting a number of 78 rpm sides for Paramount Records in 1930. Like many country blues artists of the time, his records did not sell, and, with the Depression forcing record companies to cut back on new recordings, he went back to working on Mississippi plantations, while continuing to perform at weekends. He was located by the folklorist Alan Lomax, who recorded him for the Library of Congress in 1941 and 1942, but House moved to Rochester, New York in 1943, again working outside music, until his "rediscovery" by blues collectors in 1964. An album for CBS Records followed, with support from the renowned producer John Hammond and blues scholar Alan Wilson (later to find fame as a member of the band Canned Heat). Son House began to perform on the US folk and college circuit, along with other blues veterans like Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and Bukka White. With James and White he toured Europe in 1967, with the American Folk Blues Festival package show, returning in 1970, when his stay in London included a session for Top Gear - making him the oldest artist to appear on a Peel show.
- Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing. After years of hostility to secular music, as a preacher, and for a few years also as a church pastor, he turned to blues performance at the age of 25. He quickly developed a unique style by applying the rhythmic drive, vocal power and emotional intensity of his preaching to the newly learned idiom. In a short career interrupted by a spell in Parchman Farm penitentiary, he developed to the point that Charley Patton, the foremost blues artist of the Mississippi Delta region, invited him to share engagements, and to accompany him to a 1930 recording session for Paramount Records. Issued at the start of The Great Depression, the records did not sell and did not lead to national recognition. Locally, Son remained popular, and in the 1930s, 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. In 1941 and 1942, House and the members of his band were recorded by Alan Lomax and John W. Work for Library of Congress and Fisk University. The following year, he left the Delta for Rochester, New York, and gave up music. In 1964, 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 1988. In addition to his early influence on Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, he became an inspiration to John Hammond, Alan Wilson (of Canned Heat), Bonnie Raitt, The White Stripes, Dallas Green and John Mooney.
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