Son House


 * Eddie James "Son" House Jr. (1902-1988) is renowned as one of the pioneering Mississippi blues singer-
 * thumb|320px|right|My Black Mama, part 1 (1930)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 recordongs, 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.
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