Lyon, Mississippi, United States
Delta blues
Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American delta 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.
John the Revelator (1970)
The Complete Library of Congress Sessions (1990) '41/'42
Father of the Delta Blues: The Complete 1965 Sessions (1992)
The Legendary 1969 Rochester Sessions (1992)
Revisited (2002) Live '65
Raw Delta Blues (2011) Comp.
Son House in Seattle 1968 (2011)
