Son House - Death Letter

[Recals]

..blows every catchy tune away

[GGutoLuiz]

Voz, violão o pé batendo pra não perder o tempo ao melhor estilo Roberth Johnson, Delta Blues tem um som tão puro que me arrepia, queria ouvir bem de pertinho sentado do lado dele!

[myunknownvirus]

This is the perfect song played by the father of the delta blues.

[TomCPH]

Open G tuning

[fIRsTRATmAN]

Son House is the blues. Guys like Clapton etc aint got nothin on these real blues men

[Brutus1Buckeye]

there are no lyrics to this song it should be different every time you hear it

[kempingpeg]

TUNING?

[vito321321]

@kempingpeg open G

[mystinger72]

Can't you tell who it is by how he is strumming???

[hammer95618]

May the Sun shine on Your house.........

[capi7al]

nice clothes

[jdredeem]

I truly love watching and listening to this video. I know it ain't Clapton or Prince, however there is an undeniable virtuosity in plain sight. The contrast of the man's skin and the sterility of the walls spoke volumes then and even now. Incredible!

[xTheWarlordx]

skip james, son house, 2 legends what would i have paid to hear em in live session :(

[malhashoudega]

he looks a bit like malcolm x here

[Rebestein]

I like his clothing style

[IpCrackle]

is that Howlin' Wolf on the left (Son House's right?)

[OGKush2010]

@IpCrackle don't think so, but you don't get much of a look. Wouldn't be unlikely, they were often together arguing, Theres a video somewhere of both their views on the blues, one arguing about moneyt he other stating women.

[MrFrankeesh]

@IpCrackle good spot, sure does look like him

[SeaGeoLi]

@IpCrackle No, it's Skip James. If you go to The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 vol. 3 (2a Parte) posted by Andalucia1960 you'll get to hear Skip sing "All Night Long" and then he'll make the hair on the back of your neck stand up with "Crow Jane". Bukka White finishes off the set with "Got Sick & Tired" and then you can see all three of them sitting there in the studio.

[SuperBalls2u]

am in heaven

[sling3shot]

It dosen't get any better than this.....unplug those amps&microphones

[Kmars121]

Love it love it love it

[shannonandsheila1]

can you just imagine if ole charlie patton had of survived him an son jammin together man woulda sold my own soul for that one

[sharonazar1]

Pure Music.. Pure Feeling.. Pure Soul. . I could listen to Son House and Blind Willie Johnson for hours. .

[nameless9037]

Metal Guitar!

[MrCloudshoe]

@PBANDSNOW Resonator. 

[PBANDSNOW]

@MrCloudshoe I knew it was reso.

[canuckcoffeecanada]

Noted that there are no strings on the guitar - but that isn't an issue. These musicians were pure magic and influenced generations of players. Utterly brilliant!

[MrFrankeesh]

@canuckcoffeecanada look again there are 6 strings I can see, no lip synching back in the day fella

[TheWiiZone]

@MrFrankeesh Actually lip synching was pretty common then.

[willwelsh816]

@TheWiiZone no lip synching in this, but there was actually more lip synching back then than now lol. just about any TV appearence was lipped. this was an actual festival i believe though

[voodoochild53]

@canuckcoffeecanada If you see no strings on son house's guitar you should look for help and see a doctor my friend.

[skullcandyman1]

@canuckcoffeecanada but there are...

[blessedwildapplegirl]

jesus christ, this video is so incredibly,um,pure?

[rrgprksKS1972]

@spitfireskater375 Son House pre-dates Robert Johnson and I don't think there is any comparison of two true blues geniuses ..

[majorhoop]

@rrgprksKS1972 ----house was pure delta blues (from the dockery plantation), having learned solely from hearing other players live. johnson did too, but i believe he had the advantage of using a record player, hence the wider diversity of styles in his work.

youre right. at their level there is no "better", only different.

[JerrysKids100]

@rrgprksKS1972 what about mississippi john hurt?



[greyzorro1]

@spitfireskater375 dare i say better..............surely the best ever.......?

[busessuck1]

... thanks for uploading indeed

I just realised I've never listened to much of Son House's revival stuff for some reason

[QueenAndrew]

Amazing! Thank you for uploading!