Heard Son House do this, up close, at an afternoon blues workshop at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival (the film might be from that performance). Powerful stuff. I have his old LP with this track, titled "I Do Not Play no Rock and Roll." The great Skip James was also on the program.
The guy pulling the old 78 at the beginning is a devoted preservationist in Frederick, MD. I'm not sure if he's still around, but the clip is from an indie documentary about him.
You would probably get partnered by youtube if you just removed this one video who's copyright you don't own(at least I believe you don't). Of course I don't know if you might be interested in that.
I saw him in 1967 in London - frail, led on by two young guys, was carefully sat down, made some incoherent sounds then a few seconds silence then WOW into Death Letter and one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. 44 years ago and I still remember it clearly.
"Walkin Blues" and "Mississippi Farm County Blues" surfaced not long ago, after all this time! A collector had a copy, and the two songs are available. I downloaded them from Amazon. It was probably the holy grail of lost blues records. Scratchy? You bet, but the power and majesty of Son House pours off the songs.
@Slickdapj wouldn't surprise me if John Tefteller was the one who had that copy.......on one other note, according to one source is that even if you found a clean near mint copy of a lot of Son House, or Charley Patton Paramount records, you would still hear a lot of surface noise due to the poor quality of materials used...(something about they were used to line chicken coops or something like that)
I've always preferred Son House over Robert Johnson. Maybe because there is actual live footage of him.....Who knows, I just know I prefer him historically.
Fair enough. How many of today's Robert Johnson critics and admirers have actually seen him live? No one I guess. All we have are studio and poor quality live recordings.
I think maybe he means that his music career lived well up into the sixties? I can't be sure, but it seems odd that his guy would be so misinformed. Because into the 70s Son wasn't as actively pursuing his musical career (he was pretty old by then, anyway).
no one can or will ever be able to play like son house (his strumming and overall filthiness with his blues). jack white definitely does some of the most justice keeping to the gritty style as son intended it to be
I am so thankful the White Stripes did a cover of this song...otherwise I never would have heard this gem of a song...I may start listening to a lot more blues now!!
This is a scene from the «Desperate Man Blues» DVD on the Dust-to-Digital label, a portrait of the collector Joe Bussard. The complete Son House performance of DLB is in the DVDs extras section.
I saw Sonhouse at the Mariposa folk festival.....he was escorted to the stage...both elbows ..held ..as he was gently placed into a chair...he then proceeded to slide the blues away...like he was some 17 yr old...looking for a howl on the Mississippi river...i never looked back...the blues was my thing!!!
Great footage of Mr Sun House when he was well into his sixties as well as The Sixties. These videos of the great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen are true treasures. Gracious.
I think; when a Youtube user dislikes a video, they should have to give an explanation as to why they dislike it.. Because if you don't like this, you're either deaf or have absolutely no idea about music!
Son House lived in Rochester, NY. In 1971, a group of high school seniors in Syracuse decided to have an alternative graduation. After talking to Son and his agent, we got him to come to our graduation where he performed in return for (I think) $75 and two shots of whiskey. Unfortunately, there is neither video nor audio of this performance.
gabrieldix64 RE: the Captain Beefheart post, I'll finish the thought... Don Van Vliet very obviously listened to Son House. On the Captain Beefheart album Strictly Personal he sounds like he is imitating Son.
Son House lived in Rochester, NY. In 1971, a group of high school seniors in Syracuse decided to have an alternative graduation. After talking to Son and his agent, we got him to come to our graduation where he performed in return for (I think) $75 and two shots of whiskey. Unfortunately, there is neither video nor audio of this performance.
WELL HEED THIS,,,,YOU THOUGHT 45,000 WAS GOOD ,,,NOW YOU GOT OVER 100.000,,,,,,AMENS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD SO ,RAISE A BOURBON, THE NECTAR OFTHE BLUES ,,,
I think someone off camera was hurrying him along, judging by the way he keeps looking up as if distracted by some idiot who has no idea of what they are witnessing, I also feel this to be true by the pissed off way he rushes the last parts and ends the song in a kind of angry way. Still a great clip though!
@SteveGad I think you're easily reading into something. He could very well have just been distracted, and that look is as much a part of feeling what he is singing than anything else.
Does Dick Waterman visit YouTube? Dick could tell some stories and set a lot of things right, I'm sure. He managed Son and many of the other older blues musicians who were rediscovered around the time of the 1960 Newport festival. Dick's fine photography work can be found on the internet, at his site. Just google "Dick Waterman" (No, I'm not him!)
This footage is extremely important when you consider that Son was a contemporary of the legendary RJ, and even more so, was an established professional when RJ was merely an apprentice. Unfortunately it's a frighteningly ominous tune, which can be heard--and seen!--in the other Son House Death Letter video, haunting the dusty roads of YouTube country.
Question??.....What would Robert Johnson's impact have been had he lived long enough to make video/film recordings? Obviously, Son House was his comtemperary.
yeah man, RJ would follow Son House around and sit in between set. The crowd wld boo RJ, Son House told him to "get off that stage and stop playing that racket" RJ went MIA for about 6 months and came back playing every blues song like he been playing them for years. Like a walking juke box
He was probably a more knowledgeable and more skilled guitar player; although if you listen to Son House's original recordings, he was pretty hot stuff, too.
They were both great singers; but I like House's voice much more than Johnson's and consider him to be the greater vocalist.
Johnson's greatest legacy was probably his intricate guitar parts, and more importantly, his songs, which have been covered by many great musicians.
That fourth record that is said not to have turned up yet at the beginning of this clip did indeed finally surface four to five years ago.
It contained the songs "Country Farm Blues" and "Clarksdale Moan."
I have the Yazoo CD "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of," that includes these two songs, plus many other from other blues, bluegrass, and country musicians, and it is excellent.
ERRORS OF FACT: The intro says Son House lived well into the Sixties, Son actually died in 1988 at age 86. The voiceover also says that Son recorded 3 or 4 songs for Paramont but in reality Son recorded 15 songs (19 if you count the session outtakes). This guy has done a tremendous service by posting this rare tape of Son House on YouTube. Unfortunately the 45,200 people who have viewed it will gotten some unintentional misinformation about the essential facts of Son's life.
@terser great share! and trading info, learning..its what makes You Tube even greater each time we check on 'our elder statesmen's' great videos..this is one of them..thanks to all who add info!
internet police - it's more about the music . . there's ways to find out about his life if they really cared. i don't think that 8 second bio totally ruined the perception of son house for people.
@mgb11271950 are you a fuckin' know it all? thanks for the info douche bag. go fuck you're sister. i did an hour ago. she wasn't bad considering she's related to you.
@mgb11271950 this was released on dvd by sbs they ran the show . on. the roots of american music. the show and dvd are called desprate man blues. and had son house blind willie the carter family and heaps of good filming
Son played all of his music in open key tunings. He most often used open D or open G. In Open D which strings are tuned to DADF#AD, In open G the strings are tuned DGDGBD.
@soldier312 I suppose a one word/name/phenomenon that musically linked decades and gendre. Saw, The Fall support The Magic Band in London a few years back. Same thing just different. Beefheart was the bridge. Picked up the baton and threw it. Mind how you go.
i dont even usually listen to blues i dont know a thing about it but that slide is what speaks to me it tells a story by itself i couldnt call it dull
Not dull. Primitive, maybe, but it was the sheer simplicity and the raw emotion of these songs, that make them what they are. They are driven by emotion and sincerity over technical prowess...
It's not dull. It's not primitive. I'll give you $5000 if you could in any way recreate this with Son House's depth. I'm not rich by any means, either.
The times I saw him in the middle 1960's, he was using a length of copper pipe as a slide---led me to go to a hardware store and "try on" pipe til I got a good fit. They sold me a scrap length, cut it to the length I asked for, and never asked what I needed it for.
Please ignore the negativity. Very easy to understand! If some of these folks don't understand, they should go back to listening to Barry Manilow. This is the Blues by one of the King's of the Blues! The Blues is the biggest influence in modern music today. Long Live The Blues! Thank you terser for posting this awsome piece of history!
Modern blues,such as Jimmy Hendrix and Cream and all forms of rock come from the likes of these great artists so its so good to know people still love and want to see them.Give me some cold beers and a long night to listen to this guy and nothing else matters!
If you study the History of American Delta Blues (Google his name)- you'll discover that
along with 'Charley Patton and Robert Johnson'
-He's one of the greatest and most influential
Bluesmen of the 20th century. The film we see
here, and there are others as well - show him
not long before he died. Because of his personal battle between playing the blues and 'serving God' - he turned to alcohol in later life and became a 'Heavy Drinker' ."
No room for Blind Lemon Jefferson? Leadbelly? Bukka White? Skip James? Mississippi John Hurt? Blind Willie Johnson? Mississippi Fred MacDowell? Jimmy Rogers?
and of course they stand in the company of Blues Titans. I love Jimmy Rogers but I dont
think he would be considered a delta bluesman.
He's more 'Country/folk' and some consider him
to be 'the father of 20th century 'Country music'. Well at least that's the opinion of some I have read - rightly or wrongly. The reason I wrote 'the holy trinity of Blues' is
because 'Rolling Stone' mag labelled them as that."
Heard Son House do this, up close, at an afternoon blues workshop at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival (the film might be from that performance). Powerful stuff. I have his old LP with this track, titled "I Do Not Play no Rock and Roll." The great Skip James was also on the program.
The guy pulling the old 78 at the beginning is a devoted preservationist in Frederick, MD. I'm not sure if he's still around, but the clip is from an indie documentary about him.
bilrux 1 day ago
Namaste. Right to my Bhakti Heart. Sigh. Namaste.
HanumanDas420 1 month ago
1:29 RANDOM DOG OUTTA NOWHERE
Hoglegvid 2 months ago
Pretty awesome!
JazzmanJeff 3 months ago
You would probably get partnered by youtube if you just removed this one video who's copyright you don't own(at least I believe you don't). Of course I don't know if you might be interested in that.
Great videos btw :)
TheUnchainedMind 4 months ago
I thought he got out of the game just before color film was mainstream shows what I know
metalltier 5 months ago
What a wonderful upload -- thank you so much for sharing it.
karenhunter58 5 months ago
I saw him in 1967 in London - frail, led on by two young guys, was carefully sat down, made some incoherent sounds then a few seconds silence then WOW into Death Letter and one of the greatest performances I've ever seen. 44 years ago and I still remember it clearly.
rogerw117 5 months ago
"Walkin Blues" and "Mississippi Farm County Blues" surfaced not long ago, after all this time! A collector had a copy, and the two songs are available. I downloaded them from Amazon. It was probably the holy grail of lost blues records. Scratchy? You bet, but the power and majesty of Son House pours off the songs.
Slickdapj 6 months ago
@Slickdapj wouldn't surprise me if John Tefteller was the one who had that copy.......on one other note, according to one source is that even if you found a clean near mint copy of a lot of Son House, or Charley Patton Paramount records, you would still hear a lot of surface noise due to the poor quality of materials used...(something about they were used to line chicken coops or something like that)
d820m 1 month ago
truly divine
yourdabull 6 months ago
The sad part about this is, barely any black people probably watched this vid smh
fashionerdxo 7 months ago
I've always preferred Son House over Robert Johnson. Maybe because there is actual live footage of him.....Who knows, I just know I prefer him historically.
rfw45 8 months ago
@rfw45 ...i heard it was the same person...
HOMEnHIGH 7 months ago
@rfw45
Fair enough. How many of today's Robert Johnson critics and admirers have actually seen him live? No one I guess. All we have are studio and poor quality live recordings.
Corbon440 6 months ago
I think maybe he means that his music career lived well up into the sixties? I can't be sure, but it seems odd that his guy would be so misinformed. Because into the 70s Son wasn't as actively pursuing his musical career (he was pretty old by then, anyway).
blondexrocker 8 months ago
this clip is from the documentary "Desperate Man Blues" about Joe Bussard. I just found it on netflix, its an awesome film about blues and country.
RecordGuy3434 8 months ago
no one can or will ever be able to play like son house (his strumming and overall filthiness with his blues). jack white definitely does some of the most justice keeping to the gritty style as son intended it to be
luccheba 9 months ago
I am so thankful the White Stripes did a cover of this song...otherwise I never would have heard this gem of a song...I may start listening to a lot more blues now!!
Brit89213 9 months ago
Thanks for uploading this. Fascinating footage.
lewars1912 9 months ago
thanks for uploading this.
kofeilist7 9 months ago
nice doggy
platnumslayer7 9 months ago 2
oool as hell thanks to uploader
shanghaitriad99 9 months ago
Great song but is he toothless??? He sounds like he's got a mouth full of penutbutter! LOL! XD
froE1983 10 months ago
Fantastic (if slightly inaccurate) post. Thanks for this friend.
SteveGad 10 months ago
this is cut thats why it is so short, you can tell from where his hand is at 0:50 compared to just after that.
mitchellanthonydillo 11 months ago
This is a scene from the «Desperate Man Blues» DVD on the Dust-to-Digital label, a portrait of the collector Joe Bussard. The complete Son House performance of DLB is in the DVDs extras section.
bitsteamde 11 months ago
I saw Sonhouse at the Mariposa folk festival.....he was escorted to the stage...both elbows ..held ..as he was gently placed into a chair...he then proceeded to slide the blues away...like he was some 17 yr old...looking for a howl on the Mississippi river...i never looked back...the blues was my thing!!!
bloozman2010 11 months ago
i get goosebumps watching him play.... you have know idea how much i appreciate people like you uploading videos like this...
:)
poise09 11 months ago
Great footage of Mr Sun House when he was well into his sixties as well as The Sixties. These videos of the great Mississippi Delta Bluesmen are true treasures. Gracious.
TCTSNBN 1 year ago
I think; when a Youtube user dislikes a video, they should have to give an explanation as to why they dislike it.. Because if you don't like this, you're either deaf or have absolutely no idea about music!
ItsYourBlood 1 year ago
1 Dislike.
I bet the Devil saw this footage.
alexicon89 1 year ago
Son House lived in Rochester, NY. In 1971, a group of high school seniors in Syracuse decided to have an alternative graduation. After talking to Son and his agent, we got him to come to our graduation where he performed in return for (I think) $75 and two shots of whiskey. Unfortunately, there is neither video nor audio of this performance.
gsacks53 1 year ago
gabrieldix64 RE: the Captain Beefheart post, I'll finish the thought... Don Van Vliet very obviously listened to Son House. On the Captain Beefheart album Strictly Personal he sounds like he is imitating Son.
raneydev 1 year ago
Remembering the great Son House today. Died October 19th, 1988
rocktenniscat 1 year ago 10
@rocktenniscat - Ah, Son House and I were alive at the same time for only 26 days.
terser 1 year ago 7
@terser - well, maybe some of his karma got into you!
rocktenniscat 1 year ago
@terser
I was born the day before he died... WHY!!!!!
Jenisonc 11 months ago
Son House lived in Rochester, NY. In 1971, a group of high school seniors in Syracuse decided to have an alternative graduation. After talking to Son and his agent, we got him to come to our graduation where he performed in return for (I think) $75 and two shots of whiskey. Unfortunately, there is neither video nor audio of this performance.
gsacks53 1 year ago
@rocktenniscat Remembering the great Son House on his birthday today... March 21st, 1902.
bluescentric 10 months ago
what i'd give to of seen this guy play live.
ferr3t 1 year ago
this guy is amazing! wow..
LaPriest 1 year ago
GOOD STUFF,
simsnkidz 1 year ago
See: Os Velhos da Montanha
osvelhos 1 year ago
@osvelhos Looks like someone's account is closed.
MrKrobar98 1 year ago
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delta blues is god
btw maybe a stupid question but how is the "thing" around his neck really called?
like a cravat or somethin?
thanks for ur answers
long live the delta blues
long live master son house´s music
Gorrrz 1 year ago
@mgb11271950 i tip my hat off to you sir, for knowing your shit
sandino27 1 year ago
WELL HEED THIS,,,,YOU THOUGHT 45,000 WAS GOOD ,,,NOW YOU GOT OVER 100.000,,,,,,AMENS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD SO ,RAISE A BOURBON, THE NECTAR OFTHE BLUES ,,,
honkydudeman 1 year ago
That performance is goddamned spectacular.
20000LeaguesUpMyAss 1 year ago
He's the real deal. Thanks for uploading this!
starrchild99 1 year ago
son house rules
Ronomikeman 1 year ago
thank you for this great upload!
rotyoung 1 year ago
sounds like crap.
veeseee128 1 year ago
@veeseee128 you are crap!, now go and suck lady gaga's cock you fucking ignorant!,
voodoochild53 1 year ago
@veeseee128 huh?
edcerc 1 year ago
his sister daughter mother and wife died.
thats real heart there ya all should listern
shawnyboie 1 year ago
my mother, my sister, my dead gal, and my wife
playfastordie1 1 year ago
this is real music
MrWaddlesgee3 1 year ago
who is the third woman? My mother, my sister, my ? and my wife
x2mars 1 year ago
"The Son House Movie," starring Morgan Freeman... pass it on...
meadowmarc89 1 year ago
i love the dog walking up at the end.
afkhajiit 1 year ago
We try it to, great song
bigwillhenk 1 year ago
I always though it was crazy how he outlived all his musical descendents, robert, muddy, wolf, jimi, he outlived them all.
soulrevolution 1 year ago
@soulrevolution I know, it's also crazy that there don't seem to be any pictures of him other than the 60's blues revival
buffalobilly 1 year ago
I think someone off camera was hurrying him along, judging by the way he keeps looking up as if distracted by some idiot who has no idea of what they are witnessing, I also feel this to be true by the pissed off way he rushes the last parts and ends the song in a kind of angry way. Still a great clip though!
SteveGad 1 year ago
@SteveGad I think you're easily reading into something. He could very well have just been distracted, and that look is as much a part of feeling what he is singing than anything else.
harvardkarbodie 1 year ago
Love it!
thorivaldic 1 year ago
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Happy birthday Son House!
Polde1243 1 year ago
Son House truly was a troubled man. He let it out through his music, great therapy.
HieronymousLex 2 years ago 2
Awesome. And that look he gives at 1.16 could freeze your blood...
Bobbo293 2 years ago 2
im guessing he probley just used some copper tubing or something rather than a brass slide
kcin1004 2 years ago
Does Dick Waterman visit YouTube? Dick could tell some stories and set a lot of things right, I'm sure. He managed Son and many of the other older blues musicians who were rediscovered around the time of the 1960 Newport festival. Dick's fine photography work can be found on the internet, at his site. Just google "Dick Waterman" (No, I'm not him!)
NicolletIslandSlim 2 years ago
This footage is extremely important when you consider that Son was a contemporary of the legendary RJ, and even more so, was an established professional when RJ was merely an apprentice. Unfortunately it's a frighteningly ominous tune, which can be heard--and seen!--in the other Son House Death Letter video, haunting the dusty roads of YouTube country.
NicolletIslandSlim 2 years ago
@NicolletIslandSlim yea thats what i was thinking. its a little strange
kcin1004 2 years ago
Question??.....What would Robert Johnson's impact have been had he lived long enough to make video/film recordings? Obviously, Son House was his comtemperary.
rfw45 2 years ago 2
yeah man, RJ would follow Son House around and sit in between set. The crowd wld boo RJ, Son House told him to "get off that stage and stop playing that racket" RJ went MIA for about 6 months and came back playing every blues song like he been playing them for years. Like a walking juke box
zoso1978 2 years ago
If Son House came first, how is it that RJ has received credit for being the foundation for rock n roll? Did RJ become that much better than Son?
8erfromdec 2 years ago
He wasn't necessarily better...
But--
He was probably a more knowledgeable and more skilled guitar player; although if you listen to Son House's original recordings, he was pretty hot stuff, too.
They were both great singers; but I like House's voice much more than Johnson's and consider him to be the greater vocalist.
Johnson's greatest legacy was probably his intricate guitar parts, and more importantly, his songs, which have been covered by many great musicians.
psychkoala 1 year ago 2
open G
BoutchBen 2 years ago 2
what tuning did he use on this?
BluesBurner 2 years ago
***UPDATE***
That fourth record that is said not to have turned up yet at the beginning of this clip did indeed finally surface four to five years ago.
It contained the songs "Country Farm Blues" and "Clarksdale Moan."
I have the Yazoo CD "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of," that includes these two songs, plus many other from other blues, bluegrass, and country musicians, and it is excellent.
Long live the mighty Son House!
PinkOld 2 years ago
amazing slide player. great song.
Gschnok 2 years ago
This performance always stuck with me as a child. Just the way he strikes his guitar, the fluidity of it. I don't know I just love it.
MayhemII 2 years ago
damn thas good
superjoffen 2 years ago 3
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Can barely understand the ole boy.
veeseee128 2 years ago
ERRORS OF FACT: The intro says Son House lived well into the Sixties, Son actually died in 1988 at age 86. The voiceover also says that Son recorded 3 or 4 songs for Paramont but in reality Son recorded 15 songs (19 if you count the session outtakes). This guy has done a tremendous service by posting this rare tape of Son House on YouTube. Unfortunately the 45,200 people who have viewed it will gotten some unintentional misinformation about the essential facts of Son's life.
mgb11271950 2 years ago 91
Thanks!
I am glad I uploaded this - and I think the other 45,000 other folks that have seen it are too.
I'm not sure where I found it exactly - but I do know I downloaded the clip from a website several years ago - hopefully youtube won't take it down.
terser 2 years ago 3
@terser great share! and trading info, learning..its what makes You Tube even greater each time we check on 'our elder statesmen's' great videos..this is one of them..thanks to all who add info!
TREYOLDHIPPIE 1 year ago
If you goggle his name there is some info on the man.
MOJONIXION 2 years ago
internet police - it's more about the music . . there's ways to find out about his life if they really cared. i don't think that 8 second bio totally ruined the perception of son house for people.
Shadowlily21 2 years ago
yea, cause i was gonna say ,i thought he outlived Robert J. and Muddy w.
holjesus 2 years ago
@mgb11271950 are you a fuckin' know it all? thanks for the info douche bag. go fuck you're sister. i did an hour ago. she wasn't bad considering she's related to you.
jackstrawfrmwchta 1 year ago
@mgb11271950 Thank you so much!
mrluket 1 year ago
@mgb11271950
not anymore thanks to the high thumbs up you got now! :D Thanks dude :)
alexicon89 1 year ago
@mgb11271950 Son passed in Detroit, MI.
graybeard420 10 months ago
@mgb11271950 this was released on dvd by sbs they ran the show . on. the roots of american music. the show and dvd are called desprate man blues. and had son house blind willie the carter family and heaps of good filming
Diddilydoodily 10 months ago
His right hand technique is amazing
strangeroussss 2 years ago
INTENSE
dioisfreakinamazing6 2 years ago
Is this standard tuning?
ex0ja 2 years ago
open G. beautiful tuning. goes like D-G-D-G-B-D ... and makes sure your B is just a LITTLE bit flat...
guybrush122 2 years ago 2
Son played all of his music in open key tunings. He most often used open D or open G. In Open D which strings are tuned to DADF#AD, In open G the strings are tuned DGDGBD.
mgb11271950 2 years ago
@mgb11271950 He didn't use open D, stop disinforming people.
tinpanalley67 1 year ago
Thanks for uploading this, it's brilliant.
lancejwood 2 years ago
COLOR film of Son House.....?
astonishing......thank you/gracias/shukrun.......
jholtgym 2 years ago 2
Captain Beefheart.
gabrieldix64 2 years ago
Yes?
terser 2 years ago
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raneydev 1 year ago
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raneydev 1 year ago
@gabrieldix64 what about beefheart?
sure nuff and yes i do?
soldier312 1 year ago
@soldier312 I suppose a one word/name/phenomenon that musically linked decades and gendre. Saw, The Fall support The Magic Band in London a few years back. Same thing just different. Beefheart was the bridge. Picked up the baton and threw it. Mind how you go.
gabrieldix64 1 year ago
@gabrieldix64 More like Delta Blues
Intlahcuilo 11 months ago
@Intlahcuilo You're right. Me too. Same thing. Different. Great film. Great song.
gabrieldix64 11 months ago
son é muito foda!!!
julioppk 2 years ago
What can one say beyond: Son House Rules. Makes all the rockin' posers look like pretty slim pickens . . . .
bobdevo 2 years ago 3
amazing
lucaskarq 2 years ago
one of the top 100 blues songs of all time!
I've only loved four women in my life.
My sister, mother, my kid girl and my wife.
bluzyhound 2 years ago
"I thought I'd never love but four wimmin in my life
My mother n my sister my kid gal and my wife."
I get the idea that this was a loved woman NOT amoung those four.
raiun42 2 years ago
so, i'll go a head and say it, what's up with the dog at the end?
Alphabex8 2 years ago
Son House should be in the Rock and roll Hall of Fame. and the smithsonian on american music section.
veeseee128 2 years ago 10
noh.. i don't like him (Son House etal..) be in Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. They're not Pop? hehe..sorry, i'm ignorant?
slippeddiscbiker 2 years ago
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the only thing I dont like about this, is that resonaters sound like someones playing a garbage can with strings
chrismortloch92 2 years ago
its probably just this old poor quality recording of it.. , i've heard some nice sounding resonators before
karl198 2 years ago
I like the sound of a garbage can with strings.
resobill 2 years ago 5
Well said!!
bluethird 2 years ago
@chrismortloch92 Better learn how to spell, silly teen.
tinpanalley67 1 year ago
Canad votes "AWESOME"!
Sheamusj 2 years ago
i dont even usually listen to blues i dont know a thing about it but that slide is what speaks to me it tells a story by itself i couldnt call it dull
SoulFire1990 2 years ago
Not dull. Primitive, maybe, but it was the sheer simplicity and the raw emotion of these songs, that make them what they are. They are driven by emotion and sincerity over technical prowess...
melkor1223 2 years ago 9
Exactly.
petrisouls 2 years ago
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Primitive,Organic,pulsating, but dull.
ronoman88 2 years ago
Dull?
Anything but dull.
terser 2 years ago
It's not dull. It's not primitive. I'll give you $5000 if you could in any way recreate this with Son House's depth. I'm not rich by any means, either.
Bluesnswing 2 years ago 3
I love Son's music
alexan1974 2 years ago
Incredible!
rjtexas 2 years ago
This is an excerpt from the documentary Desperate Man Blues
adubon 2 years ago 2
Everyone who owns a guitar has so much to learn just from this clip alone...this is where it all started.
tmaarud 2 years ago 5
That's such a nice guitar! Does anyone know where I could secure myself such a fine instrument?
tylerbgoode 2 years ago
It's an old National Dobro I think... somebody else knows more about I'm sure...
Always check ebay if you are interested in vintage instruments...
terser 2 years ago
The times I saw him in the middle 1960's, he was using a length of copper pipe as a slide---led me to go to a hardware store and "try on" pipe til I got a good fit. They sold me a scrap length, cut it to the length I asked for, and never asked what I needed it for.
sjf1225 2 years ago
I thought Son House was kinda ordinary compared to the great Robert Johnson when I was a kid...
All Robert did, after learning from Son House, was take the music past where he found it.
Son House - Father of Delta Blues FACT!
Philo68 2 years ago
B.B.King has learned much from The Great Son House.
1drumm 2 years ago 2
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keep your but in school so you dont talk like this guy.
veeseee128 2 years ago
School won't help ya none. A lot of educated morons out their. Just look at Washington DC ;)
crazedmystic 2 years ago 2
Dont you realise that this man, born in 1902, didnt get the same education as we get nowadays? show some respect, please.
Jelle528 2 years ago 6
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What the hell is he sayin!
veeseee128 3 years ago
He is pretty easy to understand...
terser 3 years ago
Please ignore the negativity. Very easy to understand! If some of these folks don't understand, they should go back to listening to Barry Manilow. This is the Blues by one of the King's of the Blues! The Blues is the biggest influence in modern music today. Long Live The Blues! Thank you terser for posting this awsome piece of history!
Galacticplane 2 years ago
He learns that the woman he loves is dead. He rushes home. At the funeral, as she's lowered into the ground, he realizes how much he loves her.
oceanbeing 2 years ago 10
BB king could learn a thing or two from this guy.
veeseee128 3 years ago 5
pure delta blues. real blues, not that commercial eric clapton stuff.
veeseee128 3 years ago 8
absolutely amazing.
thanks so much for posting this!
willyicious 3 years ago
ITs not a colonel sanders tie.. its a Mississippi String Tie. Get it right. lol
guitarbrn2 3 years ago 3
Son House lived until 1988.
JosephNScott 3 years ago 2
JosephNScott was not very famous at all although he dearly wanted to be. He died
in 1998 but was reborn as a retarded two legged Piglet. He now roams cyberspace passing foul wind wherever
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cannibaltroll8 3 years ago
Modern blues,such as Jimmy Hendrix and Cream and all forms of rock come from the likes of these great artists so its so good to know people still love and want to see them.Give me some cold beers and a long night to listen to this guy and nothing else matters!
68tornado 3 years ago
Someone else posted the entire clip of this performance somewhere and it got taken off! :(
parapedal1 3 years ago
looks like he has 7 fingers on his picking hand.
madannfrank 3 years ago
Thank you posting this. This is favorite song of his. Amazing
Skynster 3 years ago
What a musical legend. I love how he uses his right hand..amazing
k3l501991 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this treasure.
Faroutdog 3 years ago 3
mindblowing.
mercury110 3 years ago 2
"Obernasenbart'; 'Was Son House Very Famous?"
If you study the History of American Delta Blues (Google his name)- you'll discover that
along with 'Charley Patton and Robert Johnson'
-He's one of the greatest and most influential
Bluesmen of the 20th century. The film we see
here, and there are others as well - show him
not long before he died. Because of his personal battle between playing the blues and 'serving God' - he turned to alcohol in later life and became a 'Heavy Drinker' ."
beethovenbix 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this great footage of this grand old man.
(For anyone who likes this - treat yourself to his earliest recordings - they're longer and his voice is even more powerful!)
HowlinWilf13 3 years ago
awesome vid, except that essentially everything said in the beginning is factually wrong.
TankJacked 3 years ago 2
"Hurry Hurry, the gal you love is dead."
whoa! Hurry anywayz....Son House.
thx me mon'
arjhendrix 3 years ago 4
phew!
his intensity made me sweat in my temp. controlled environment with 'me cool electronics'.
A TRUE LEGEND 10.
He never really needed a band. POWER of 1.
arjhendrix 3 years ago
was son house very famous
obernasenbart 3 years ago
Wow !!!! Great !!
HRB 3 years ago
"The Holy Trinity of Blues music"...
Charley Patton
Son House
Robert Johnson
beethovenbix 3 years ago 2
No room for Blind Lemon Jefferson? Leadbelly? Bukka White? Skip James? Mississippi John Hurt? Blind Willie Johnson? Mississippi Fred MacDowell? Jimmy Rogers?
HowlinWilf13 3 years ago 3
"Yeah", Your right On HOWLINWILF13.
Those guys definately are among my favourites
and of course they stand in the company of Blues Titans. I love Jimmy Rogers but I dont
think he would be considered a delta bluesman.
He's more 'Country/folk' and some consider him
to be 'the father of 20th century 'Country music'. Well at least that's the opinion of some I have read - rightly or wrongly. The reason I wrote 'the holy trinity of Blues' is
because 'Rolling Stone' mag labelled them as that."
beethovenbix 3 years ago
THE best...
BrimptonFopp 3 years ago
He was a great burning fire.
All the digital technology in the world can't do that. And never will.
Youssef51 3 years ago 5
I'm glad his missing 78 turned up a few years ago, too bad I didn't find it though. This is amazing footage.
zootdroop 3 years ago
That is what you call power kids.
rugerzandlugerz 3 years ago 3
His playing say's it all!
shadoo2 3 years ago
He's playing with his whole body. Look at the intense look in his eyes at the end.
lampens 3 years ago 4
it seemed like he was possessed... is some kind of trance, or something.
lupedro77 3 years ago 2
Yep, right at 1:17, he looks downright terrifying.
Incredible, full body performance.
PinkOld 2 years ago