2 posts tagged “mississippi delta”
Son House was part of a circle of influential Mississippi Delta bluesmen that included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson, Willie Brown, Muddy Waters, and several others. He was also the biggest perpetrator of the story of Robert Johnson selling his soul down at the crossroads, a story Robert Johnson himself was never known to tell. After recording a few sides for Paramount in the 1930s, then recording a bit more for Alan Lomax in 1941, House vanished from sight until the folk music boom of the 60s when he, and many other rediscovered bluesmen played the coffeehouse and college auditorium circuit. He died in Detroit in 1988. His influence on blues and rock is incalculable, and can even be heard in as contemporary a group as the White Stripes, who covered "Death Letter" at the Grammies.
